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Windows 2008 Core – Enable Remote Administration

by Steve Wiseman on May 27, 2010 · 0 comments

in Tips,Windows 2008,Windows 2008 Core,Windows 2008 R2


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When I first came across Windows 2008 Core, I was happy. Finally, a version of windows you could chisel down to just the base components that you needed.

Microsoft did such a good job – that it is hard to configure it with the default settings 🙂

No graphical tools are provided (Well there are a few…but not many). When you logon, you are welcomed with a command line window that sits in the middle of the screen:

Core 2008 Command Prompt

The frustration level increases exponentially when you want to get something done.

For security reasons, remote administration is disabled by default. Remote Administration – not to be confused with Remote Desktop is the file and printer sharing component that allows you to remotely use computer management, event viewer, service manager, or third party tools like our Network Administrator

To remove the firewall restrictions that block its use, simply type this at the command line:

netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="Remote Administration" new enable=yes

After that command, some remote services will work. For example, you can remotely reboot or shutdown the machine using Network Administrator

Network Administrator 2008 Core

But…if you want to manage services, add/remove/edit users using computer management, or look at the event log remotely…you will still get access denied messages.

You need to tell Core 2008 what users are allowed to connect. You can do this by typing this at the command line:

cmdkey /add:ServerName /user:UserName /pass:password

Where ServerName is the name of the local server, and the username and password are for an administrator account.

That is all there is to it. After those two commands you can remotely manage your 2008 core server with ease.

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