Remote powershell / WinRM to Server 2012

[JD86]

I've hit a road block and can't figure out why I am getting this response back. It appears that it connects to the server but it returns: "System.Management.Automation.Remoting.PSRemotingTransportException: Connecting to remote server server2.domain.local failed with the following error message: An invalid argument was supplied". I enabled everything I thought on the remote computer:

winrm set winrm/config/service/auth @{Basic="true"}
winrm set winrm/config/service @{AllowUnencrypted="true"}
winrm set winrm/config/client @{TrustedHosts="*"}

I'm trying to remote powershell so I can run Citrix powershell commands from another computer and here is what I have:

try
{
XenDesktop7 xd = new XenDesktop7("http://server2.domain.local:5985/wsman", @"DOMAIN\Administrator", "#######");
string[] blah = xd.GetCatalogs();

            foreach (var b in blah)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(b);
            }
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(ex.ToString());
        }

public CitrixPowershell(string uri, string username, string password)
{
this._connection = GetConnection(uri, username, password);
PSSnapInException snapinException;
_runspace = RunspaceFactory.CreateRunspace(_connection);
_runspace.Open();

        \_runspace.RunspaceConfiguration.AddPSSnapIn("Citrix.\*.Admin.V\*", out snapinException);

        \_powershell = PowerShell.Create();
        \_powershell.Runspace = \_runspace;
        
    }

    private WSManConnectionInfo GetConnection(string uri, string username, string password)
    {
        SecureString pwd = new SecureString();
        foreach (char x in password)
            pwd.AppendChar(x);

        PSCredential ps = new PSCredential(username, pwd);

        WSManConnectionInfo wsinfo = new WSManConnectionInfo(false, "server2.domain.local", 5985, "/wsman", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/powershell/Microsoft.PowerShell", ps);
        wsinfo.AuthenticationMechanism = AuthenticationMechanism.Basic;
        wsinfo.ProxyAuthentication = AuthenticationMechanism.Negotiate;
        return wsinfo;
    }

[Lost User]

JD86 wrote:

failed with the following error message: An invalid argument was supplied".

Somewhere in your application there is a line of code that has a bad parameter. Identify that and you are on your way to a solution.

[JD86]

But thats the issue. I've compared it with numerous code examples and this should be working. Example: https://com2kid.wordpress.com/2011/09/22/remotely-executing-commands-in-powershell-using-c/[^] [^] The only thing I can think of is that this is a Server 2012 R2 box and wondering if there is something funky with the security. I haven't tried to a 2008 R2 box yet but plan on doing that today.

[Lost User]

JD86 wrote:

this should be working.

Maybe so, but you still need to do some debugging to find out why it isn't.

[JD86]

Well it turns out the code actually does work. I'm not able to get it to work running it from my Server 2012 R2 lab server but from my 2008 R2 lab server it runs fine. I'll have to do some more investigating but at least I know the code is right! Thanks!