Hi to all, im trying to acces the windows device manager remotely.
I have found the procedure on technet and on forums, this procedure have no issue when using against 2008R2 server device manager, but when i tried the same for the new windows 2012 it does not work.
I have tried Windows 2012 RTM with full gui as a target and also free hyper-v 2012 server as the target too.
As the source i have tried the 2008R2 MMC and 2012 RTM MMC.
I have Enabled the “Allow remote access to the PnP interface” via domain GPO secondary via local GPO to see if there is some difference.
All the computers are members of the same activedirectory domain which have 2008R2 funciton level (both domain and forest).
All atempts made towards the W2012 platform (ragardless the core or full gui) ends with error:"make sure the computer is on network, has remote managemet enabled and runing Plug and play service and remote registry service. the error was the service is not running"
I have checked all: the remote mangement is configured to enable, and both services are also runing, i have disabled the windows firewall to be sure that it is not blocked anywhere along the way.
I was checking the target server event log to see if there is some active refusal of the remote device mananger request. System and app log does not seem to have any trace. Only in security log I am able to see succesfull audit for the logon (type3) atempt from my source server IP which i think is related to the MMC request.
could you please confirm that this is a bug in the new windows server, or get us some workaround please?
As for the microsft hyper-v server 2012, the remote way is the only posible for device manager, this is a serious issue althou the devman is in read only mode and the sconfig does not provide any other means for accessing the HW info.
I gues that the powershell will be the first workaround in answers, but i would like the remote gui management to work too.
Thank you very much.