Enter-PSSession to remote server fails with “cannot find the computer”

Question

My desktop is win7 and I am trying to connect to a server 2012.
Both hosts are on the same domain.

If I do:

Enter-PSSession -ComputerName *Serve         


        

Answer 1

In my case DNS was was pointing to the right IP yet there wase a typo in the hostname so basicaly the parameter -Computername and the actual hostname didn't match.