Problem Connecting WAC Gateway to Itself

[Aaron Hall]

I can login to WAC without issue. I can connect to ANY server in my domain without issue... except for the WAC gateway server itself. When I try, I receive constant authentication prompts and the following:

Connecting to remote server wac01 failed with the following error message : The WS-Management service cannot process the request. Cannot find the microsoft.sme.powershell session configuration in the WSMan: drive on the wac01 computer. For more information, see the about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic.

I have no other issues with this server, and I do not have any issues connecting from others using WinRM commands either. Any thoughts?

[#2]

Hi Aaron,

I'm having the same issue. Have you discovered a solution?

[#3]

Unfortunately, no I haven't... I haven't found any documentation of others having this or how to resolve it. I came here hoping that someone might have come across it.

[#4]

To rid out of constant authentication prompts you can try modifying internet settings:

Internet properties- Securities- add the (WAC local host site or the website you used to access WAC) in trusted site and set security level to low- close the browser and try again.

[#5]

Thanks for the response. Unfortunately, this had no effect on the problem I presented.

[#6]

I had this same error this morning but it wasn't a WAC gateway, just a regular server. The remote registry service was stopped. After starting it I was able to connect. Hope that helps.

[#7]

Hmm, interesting. Let me check that and I'll report back.

[#8]

We believe we found the root cause of this behavior. The fix should be available in the next Windows Admin Center release, currently planned for late February.

In the meantime, as a workaround, try providing your credentials with the Manage As option before you try to connect.

[#9]

I had tried providing my credentials with the Manage As option before I tried to connect. It didn't work...

"Connecting to remote server mediapc failed with the following error message : The WS-Management service cannot process the request. Cannot find the microsoft.sme.powershell session configuration in the WSMan: drive on the mediapc computer. For more information, see the about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic."

[#10]

I found i had to use UPN format as the username rather than Domain\username.  The fix mentioned coming in the next release, is it in the 1812 preview?

Also some situations i found removing the domain from the FQDN in the address also fixed the problem on some machines when connecting.

Thanks