Powershell invoke-command access is denied error - not a double hop

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Lee Exothermix picture Lee Exothermix · Oct 19, 2017 · Viewed 11k times · Source

I am building a new network with Server 2016 and a handful of Windows 10 clients. I have run Enable-PSRemoting successfully on all the clients. From the server I run:

Invoke-Command -ComputerName $computer -Scriptblock {'test'}

which results in [computer] Connecting to remote server failed with the following error message : Access is denied. + CategoryInfo: OpenError: (computer:string) [], PSRemotingTransportException + FullyQualifiedErrorId: AccessDenied,PSSessionStateBroken

Because I am only having the remote computer process a string I believe this is not related to the common double hop issue I see in the forums.

I can also run WinRM successfully on the client machines:

Test-WSMan $computer

If anyone has insight into other causes of the access denied error I would greatly appreciate some ideas on where to look.

Thanks.

Answer

Moerwald picture Moerwald · Oct 19, 2017

I guess it is a permission problem. Try to create PsSession object via 

$s = New-PSSession -ComputerName "you_computer_name" -Credential(Get-Credential)

Call Invoke-Command with the beforehand created session object:

Invoke-Command -Session $s -ScriptBlock { Get-Service }

This should return a list of all services of remote machine.

Hope that helps.

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