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Old 04-09-2008   #1
Michael Gao
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A question about firewall & powershell

I always use gwmi to get information on remote computer. But some of them
enabled firewall. So I got error message like:

Get-WmiObject : The RPC server is unavailable. (Exception from HRESULT:
0x800706BA)
At line:1 char:5

Does anybody know how can I config Windows Firewall on remote server so I
can access it via Powershell?

Michael

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Old 04-10-2008   #2
Marco Shaw [MVP]
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Re: A question about firewall & powershell

Michael Gao wrote:
Quote:

> I always use gwmi to get information on remote computer. But some of
> them enabled firewall. So I got error message like:
>
> Get-WmiObject : The RPC server is unavailable. (Exception from HRESULT:
> 0x800706BA)
> At line:1 char:5
>
> Does anybody know how can I config Windows Firewall on remote server so
> I can access it via Powershell?
>
> Michael
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Old 04-10-2008   #3
Oisin (x0n) Grehan [MVP]
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Re: A question about firewall & powershell

On Apr 9, 10:59*pm, "Michael Gao" <michael...@xxxxxx> wrote:
Quote:

> I always use gwmi to get information on remote computer. But some of them
> enabled firewall. So I got error message like:
>
> Get-WmiObject : The RPC server is unavailable. (Exception from HRESULT:
> 0x800706BA)
> At line:1 char:5
>
> Does anybody know how can I config Windows Firewall on remote server so I
> can access it via Powershell?
>
> Michael
Unless you have some special solution and/or rules in place that
allows firewalls to be remotely configured, I think you're out of
luck. Being able to remotely configure a firewall to enable a rule for
the protocol that itself must be used to remotely configure a firewall
is a bit chicken-and-egg, no? ;-)

- Oisin
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Old 04-10-2008   #4
Oisin (x0n) Grehan [MVP]
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Re: A question about firewall & powershell

On Apr 10, 1:43*pm, "Oisin (x0n) Grehan [MVP]" <ois...@xxxxxx>
wrote:
Quote:

> On Apr 9, 10:59*pm, "Michael Gao" <michael...@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
Quote:

> > I always use gwmi to get information on remote computer. But some of them
> > enabled firewall. So I got error message like:
>
Quote:

> > Get-WmiObject : The RPC server is unavailable. (Exception from HRESULT:
> > 0x800706BA)
> > At line:1 char:5
>
Quote:

> > Does anybody know how can I config Windows Firewall on remote server so I
> > can access it via Powershell?
>
Quote:

> > Michael
>
> Unless you have some special solution and/or rules in place that
> allows firewalls to be remotely configured, I think you're out of
> luck. Being able to remotely configure a firewall to enable a rule for
> the protocol that itself must be used to remotely configure a firewall
> is a bit chicken-and-egg, no? ;-)
>
> - Oisin
Having read that again, I just realised that you probably didn't mean
remote configure, just configure. Never mind! ;-)

- Oisin
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