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

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.

Solution

  • 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.