Winrm quick config shows error

Question

C:\Users\Administrator>winrm quickconfig WinRM already is set up to receive requests on this machine. WSManFault Message ProviderFault WSManFault Message = Unable to check the status of the firewall.

Error number: -2147024894 0x80070002 The system cannot find the file specified.

Sisile

Answer 1

I had exactly the same issue, after a lot of reading and going through firewall restarts, service restarts, opening ports and that kind of stuff, the solution was quite easy: Just reboot the server

This issue just went away

Lanfranc

Answer 2

The default firewall rule may be corrupted or not functioning as expected. Running below might help, to set the fw rule:

netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="Windows Remote Management (HTTP-In)" dir=in action=allow service=any enable=yes profile=any localport=5985 protocol=tcp

Menderes