WinRM error 0x80338012 in Windows 10
October 30, 2019•323 words
Working on getting MFA working with my PowerShell connect script for Office 365 I ran into an issue where a WinRM command wasn't working on my machine. Apparently I had never set it up before, so the command:
winrm get winrm/config/client/auth
was not working. I was getting an error:
WSManFault
Message = The client cannot connect to the destination specified in the request. Verify that the service on the destination is running and is accepting requests. Consult the logs and documentation for the WS-Management service running on the destination, most commonly IIS or WinRM. If the destination is the WinRM service, run the following command on the destination to analyze and configure the WinRM service: "winrm quickconfig".
Error number: -2144108526 0x80338012
The client cannot connect to the destination specified in the request. Verify that the service on the destination is running and is accepting requests. Consult the logs and documentation for the WS-Management service running on the destination, most commonly IIS or WinRM. If the destination is the WinRM service, run the following command on the destination to analyze and configure the WinRM service: "winrm quickconfig".
I decided to try running "winrm quickconfig", and got an error:
WinRM is not set up to receive requests on this machine.
The following changes must be made:
Start the WinRM service.
Set the WinRM service type to delayed auto start.
Make these changes [y/n]? y
Error: One or more update steps could not be completed.
Could not change the WinRM service type: Access is denied.
Could not start the WinRM service: Access is denied.
I launched another PowerShell session, this time as administrator, and ran the same command with success. Now the result of winrm get winrm/config/client/auth looks much better:
Auth
Basic = true
Digest = true
Kerberos = true
Negotiate = true
Certificate = true
CredSSP = false