October 2017
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User Account Control (UAC) restricts local (not domain) user accounts logging on using a remote connection. The remote connection will be made as a standard user account by default, that is, a user without administrative privileges.
The Enable-PSRemoting command disables UAC remote restrictions. If another method has been used to enable remoting, and a local account is being used to connect, it is possible that remote restrictions are still in place.
The current value can be viewed using:
Get-ItemPropertyValue HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System -Name LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy
If the key or value is missing, an error will be thrown.
UAC remote restrictions can be disabled as follows. Using ...
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