PowerShell Remoting giving “Access is Denied” error

Question

I am trying to use PowerShell Remoting to check some disk sizes from a Server in a remote domain, but the commands I am running are failing to work.

The situation is

Answer 1

Had similar problems recently. Would suggest you carefully check if the user you're connecting with has proper authorizations on the remote machine.

You can review permissions using the following command.

Set-PSSessionConfiguration -ShowSecurityDescriptorUI -Name Microsoft.PowerShell

Found this tip here (updated link, thanks "unbob"):

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/scripting/configure-remote-security-settings-for-windows-powershell/

It fixed it for me.

Answer 2

Running the command prompt or Powershell ISE as an administrator fixed this for me.