Firewall - 2

There are actually a whole series of groups that you need to look at for remote administration, depending upon what you want to remotely manage. The name of the firewall group is Windows Firewall Remote Management.

You can find the names of the individual rules, if you want to ensure you just enable the specific ones you want, by issuing the following command:

Get-NetFirewallRule | Where { $_.DisplayGroup –Eq “firewall group”} | Format-Table
Replace firewall group with with the appropriate managment group. The ones that relate to remote management are:

group="File and Printer Sharing"

group="Remote Service Management"

group="Performance Logs and Alerts"

group="Remote Event Log Management"

group="Remote Scheduled Tasks Management"

group="Remote Volume Management"

group="Remote Desktop"

group="Windows Firewall Remote Management"

group="windows management instrumentation (wmi)"