In my experience these are the primary hurdles to WinRM sweet success. First is connecting. Can I successfully establish a connection on a WinRM port to the remote machine? There are several things to get in the way here. Then a yak shave or two later you get past connectivity but are not granted access. What's that you say? You are signing in with admin credentials to the box?...I'm sorry say that again?...huh?...I just can't hear you.