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Blog posts November 2025

PowerShell PSRemoting Fix: Bypassing "Access is Denied" for Privileged Admin Commands

While working with PowerShell Remoting (PSRemoting), I was able to successfully connect to a remote machine using Enter-PSSession, but any administrative command—such as resetting the local Administrator password—failed with:

System error 5 has occurred.
Access is denied.

Even though the …

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PowerShell Remoting Access is Denied: How to Fix PSRemoting for Administrators Group Accounts

After successfully configuring Microsoft PowerShell PSRemoting, I was able to login with local Administrator user without any issue. But after creating another user, adding it to Administrators group then logging with it was throwing error message of Access is denied.

Screenshot of PowerShell showing the Enter-PSSession failure with the error message: 'Access is denied' for a local administrator account (vmadmin) trying to connect to a remote server 10.0.0.4 local administrators.

PS VM02 > Enter-PSSess…

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Bypass the Domain Wall: How to Enable PSRemoting WinRM in a Workgroup Environment

This is very simple and easy instructions to configure PowerShell PSRemoting WinRM on Windows system which is not joined into domain (Basically they are in workgroup). On the the first system login and and open PowerShell as administrator and Run below commands to configure PowerShell Remoting. 

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