Hi

I've previously used Server Manager (Windows 8.1 with RSAT) to monitor my servers. 

Recently, enterprise policies suggest to disable WinRM HTTP and use HTTPS instead. I tried on one of my servers (2008R2), and Server Manager has shown an error claiming WinRM 3.0 is not installed on that computer. 

Even being a 2008R2, WinRM 3.0 is installed as I've been monitoring it for months using Server Manager, the only changes I've done on server side are:

winrm quickconfig -transport:https
winrm delete winrm/config/Listener?Address=*+Transport=HTTP

To enable HTTPS and disable HTTP. After getting the error I tried to disable completely the Windows Firewall and tried to Refresh the server manager just to be sure that firewall isn't blocking port 5986 (winrm over https)

Any suggestion on how (if possible at all) to use server manager with https winrm would be appreciated.

Hi Ishmar,

Here is the link for Winrm 3.0:
Windows Management Framework 3.0:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34595

Here is the guide for configuring:
How to force WinRM to listen interfaces over HTTPS:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/meamcs/archive/2012/02/25/how-to-force-winrm-to-listen-interfaces-over-https.aspx

Best Regards,

Leo

Hi Leo

I've already configured WinRM for listening to HTTPS. The problem I'm facing is that the utility called 'Server Manager' that is included with Windows 8.1 RSAT or Windows Server 2012R2 gives this error on every remote server I've disabled WinRM HTTP listener:

Online-Verify WinRM 3.0 service installed, running, and required firewall ports are open

With that in mind, my guess is: "Server Manager" is configured by default to use WinRM over HTTP (5985). And my question is: how to change it so "Server Manager" uses WinRM over HTTPS (port 5986).

As stated before, I temporarily disabled firewall on remote server just to be sure that it's not windows firewall messing with port 5986.

Hi Ishmar,

As far as I know, Server Manager would use the port specified in WinRM.

It would help to solve the problem if you could provide original error message.

Best Regards,

Leo