Managing Hyper-V Host from Windows 10 Outside Domain

Hyper-V Manager - success

It’s not as easy as I thought, as there are quite a few pieces that need to be taken care of before you can happily manage Hyper-V host remotely from any computer, even one outside a managed domain.

If you want to set up to manage your office Hyper-V host from your home computer that’s not part of your office network domain at all, here are the steps you can follow:

On the Hyper-V host

1. Enable PowerShell Remoting and configure the necessary Firewall rules

Enable-PSRemoting

2. Set up the Firewall rule to allow remote access from public networks on Windows platforms.

Enable-PSRemoting -SkipNetworkProfileCheck -Force
Set-NetFirewallRule -Name "WinRM-HTTP-In-TCP-Public" -RemoteAddress Any
Enable-WSManCredSSP -Role Server

Do a TCP port scan to make sure the Remote Management port is accessible.

Test-NetConnection -ComputerName target_name -Port 5985

On Windows 10 machine

1. Open PowerShell as Administrator window and run the following two cmdlets.

Set-Item WSMan:\localhost\Client\TrustedHosts -Value "FQDN-Hyper-V-Host"
Enable-WSManCredSSP -Role Client -DelegateComputer "FQDN-Hyper-V-Host"

2. Open Group Policy Editor and configure the following group policy

Computer Configuration > Administrative Template > System > Credentials Delegation, and enable Allow delegating fresh credentials with NTLM-only server authentication and add wsman/FQDN-Hyper-V-Host.

Test it out

Open Hyper-V Manager on Windows 10, right-click “Hyper-V Manager” and choose Connect to Server…

Hyper-V Manager - Connect to Server

Type in the Hyper-V hostname, Set User with the proper credential, and click OK.

Hyper-V Manager - success

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3 thoughts on “Managing Hyper-V Host from Windows 10 Outside Domain

  1. Hi there,

    I have tried your steps and finally I can add the remote server in my hyper-v manager.
    But now it says: “RPC Server Unavailable. Unable to establish communication between $Host and $Client”
    I have disabled the firewall on both sides but it is not working, do you have any idea?

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