[wpkg-users] Trouble enabling PowerShell Remoting from WPKG

[Paul Griffith]

Greetings,

    I have been running into a brick wall trying to turn on PowerShell 
Remoting via WPKG, all attempts have failed. If I run the wpkg package 
from a admin prompt, it works. When I try the same thing from the WPKG 
it fails. Is there anything special I have to do to enable PowerShell 
Remoting from the system account ?


In the Eventlog I see the error message "Connecting to the remote server 
failed with the following message: Access is denied"

Any pointers? Do need to do something with the System account ?

Here is my package file, I adapted from Dafydd Jones.


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<packages:packages
         xmlns:packages="http://www.wpkg.org/packages" 
xmlns:wpkg="http://www.wpkg.org/wpkg" 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.wpkg.org/packages 
../../xsd/packages.xsd" >
     <package id="ps-remoting"
             name="Enable Powershell Remoting"
             revision="%PKG_VERSION%rc1"
             reboot="false"
             priority="10">

         <variable name="PKG_VERSION"     value="1" />
         <variable name="PKG_NAME"        value="ps-remoting" />
         <variable name="PKG_SOURCE"      value="%SOFTWARE%\"/>
         <variable name="PKG_DESTINATION" value="%ProgramFiles%\"      
architecture="x86"/>
         <variable name="PKG_DESTINATION" value="%ProgramFiles(x86)%\" 
architecture="x64"/>

         <check type="execute" path='powershell -NonInteractive -Command 
"if (Invoke-Command localhost {1}) {exit 0} else {exit 1}"' 
condition="exitcodeequalto" value="0"/>

         <install cmd='powershell -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted 
-NonInteractive -Command "Enable-PSRemoting -Force" '/>
         <install cmd='powershell -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted 
-NonInteractive -Command "Set-Item WSMan:\localhost\Client\TrustedHosts 
-Value * -Force" '/>


         <upgrade include="install" />

        <remove cmd='powershell -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted 
-NonInteractive -Command "Disable-PSRemoting -Force" '/>

     </package>
</packages:packages>
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Thank You
Paul