So,

I am spinning up a ton of VM's for the University I work at in preparation for migrating to 2012 completely and I discovered something interesting today.

The "Allow Remote Management from these subnets" option, only partially enables remote management.  You still need to run the remote management enablement with NetSh (http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2008/06/05/how-to-enable-remote-administration-of-server-core-via-mmc-using-netsh.aspx) for the certain functionality (Remote Firewall, VDS, FRS Options), which to me seems really weird.

Has anyone else experienced

Hi Dan,

If you want to manage remote server core with MMC (Microsoft Management Console), we need to configure Windows Firewall firstly to allow MMC snap-in(s) to connect on the remote server core, since your servers are Server 2012 and newer, so we can also use the powershell cmdlet instead of cmd netsh:

Enable-NetFirewallRule -DisplayGroup "Remote Service Management" 

In addition, you can also use Windows Powershell to help you to remote access with Powershell Remoting, Powershell has substantial Modules and Cmdlets to help us to manage server.

For more detailed information to manage server core, please refer to this article:

Manage a Server Core Server

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I am talking about the fact that the Group Policy for automatically adding this exception was not updated to reflect all the new changes in Server 2012.  I know the powershells, it is just the Group Policy Object "Allow inbound exception for Remote Administation" does not work (as one would intend)

Hi Dan,

I would like to know if the Policy "Allow inbound exception for Remote Administation" failed to apply the GPO or it has applied the GPO but the server still couldn't remote access server core2012 via MMC?

To view the applied Group Policy setting, please refer to the cmd gpresult, please also note you can ran "gpupdate /force" to update the GPO on server core first, to check the Policy setting, please launch Command as Administrator, and run "gpresult /h c:\temp\gpo.html".

If it still failed to connect remote server via MMC, please also post the error information.

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Hi Dan,

Im writing to check if the suggestions were helpful, if you have any questions, please feel free to let me know.

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