Cannot remote desktop into a non-domain joined workgroup Windows Hyper-V Server 2012R2 [closed]

Installed Hyper-V Server 2012R2 on a server. Did NOT join the server to a windows domain.

Via sconfig.cmd I configured the network adapter, enable icmp, verified I could ping other PCs on the same lan segment and they could ping me, and enable remote desktop.

When attempting to remote desktop to the server I get this error:

As others noted this issue is caused by the fact that sconfig.cmd will only enable the firewall rules for the Domain profile. Because this server is on a workgroup you have to enable it yourself with Enable-NetFirewallRule or as the poster noted an equivalent netsh command:

netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="remote desktop" new enable=Yes

Solution 1:

if you haven't done so, open the Firewall for RDP, in PowerShell:

 Enable-NetFirewallRule -Name "RemoteDesktop-UserMode-In-TCP"
 Enable-NetFirewallRule -Name "RemoteDesktop-UserMode-In-UDP"

Solution 2:

You need to make sure the firewall isn't blocking RDP. Find out what firewall profile the server is using, and ensure that RDP is allowed under that profile.