How to enable the "Allow remote administration exception" or Remote Administration

How to enable the "Allow remote administration exception" or Remote Administration

There are two methods to enable Remote Administration, enable it in Windows Firewall or Group Policy.

A. Enable Remote Administration in Windows Firewall

1. Open the Windows Firewall from Control Panel.

2. Click Exceptions and check Remote Administration (Figure 1).

Note: if you enable "Allow remote administration exception" using rpedit.msc, you will see two Remote Administration as showing Figure 1.

Figure 1

B. Enable the "Allow remote administration exception" in Group Policy.

1. Click Start, click Run, type gpedit.msc, and then click OK

2. Under Console Root, expand Computer Configuration, expand Administrative Templates, expand Network, expand Network Connections, expand Windows Firewall, and then click Domain Profile.

3. Right-click Windows Firewall: Allow remote administration exception, and then click Properties. (Figure 2)

Figure 2

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