Windows 10: What's WinRM?

I have recently found out that I have a bunch of Windows Remote Management entries in my Event Viewer which can be found by this path:
Event Viewer> Application and Service Logs>Microsoft>Windows>Windows Remote Management>Operational


I don't remember configuring/enabling such a thing. What does it actually do? I've tried googling for it but found no good information.


Here is how the events look like





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Laura,

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It's a windows remote management protocol, as documented on TechNet: Windows Remote Management (Windows). Different applications use it for a variety of purposes; from what I see in your event log, some kind of scripting interface related to remote management (WSMan API call) is generating these events and their responses from your OS. There's a discussion on how to set up a remote management listener (Setting Up Security Event Log Subscriptions with Windows Server 2003/2008 Premier Field Engineering) that seems to indicate it's likely a server-based process or service of some kind behind it all. I'm in a workgroup only environment and I find no Windows Remote Management events in my event log.
HTH,
--Ed--

 

Thank you very much for your response Ed.

Is there any way to find out what could be the culprit of these entries? They seem to occur almost daily at random times.

There are 4 events which keep repeating over and over again:


Event 145: WSMan operation Enumeration started with resourceUri http://schemas.microsoft.com/wbem/ws...onfig/listener
Event 254: Activity Transfer
Event 161: The client cannot connect to the destination specified in the request. Verify that the service on the destination is running and is accepting requests. Consult the logs and documentation for the WS-Management service running on the destination, most commonly IIS or WinRM. If the destination is the WinRM service, run the following command on the destination to analyze and configure the WinRM service: "winrm quickconfig".
Event 142: WSMan operation Enumeration failed, error code 2150858770

 

WBEM is web-based enterprise management. Chances are you've got some kind of management tool or agent running on your PC and it's making the WSMan calls. I found an MS answers post on this but no meaningful response from Microsoft: Windows 10 Windows Remote Management Event IDs 142 and 161 - Microsoft Community
The URI specified in the 145 message also comes up as invalid/unreachable, so it looks like a pointer error.

HTH,
--Ed--

 

So I am not the only one with this weird issue... Thank you Ed for finding this. I guess it's some sort of a Microsoft bug

 

No, no, it's not a BUG: it's a FEATURE! *Biggrin
--Ed--