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"The WS-Management service cannot process the request. The service is configured to not accept any remote shell requests."

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When trying to use PowerShell remoting you may come across the following error "The WS-Management service cannot process the request. The service is configured to not accept any remote shell requests." Many people may be confused by this as they have run the Enable-PSRemoting command. Unfortunately there is another setting called "Allow Remote Shell Access" which can be configured in group policy which prevents you from connecting to a remote machine. You can see the effective setting by running the following PowerShell command locally Get-Item WSMan:\localhost\Shell\AllowRemoteShellAccess The setting can be located in the following group policy path Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Remote Shell > Allow Remote Shell Access I think that this causes some confusion because people believe that Microsoft recommend disabling this setting (and therefore disabling PowerShell remoting) which isn'