Here a quick ‘how to’ connect to a remote server via PowerShell that is not joined to a domain.

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On remote server:

** 1. Make sure the Windows Remote Management (winrm) service is running

# Get the status of the winrm service
Get-Service winrm
# If it not running, start the service
Start-Service winrm
# Also set the service to start automatically (Delayed Start)
Set-Service "winrm" -StartupType Automatic
# Enable winrm 
winrm quickconfig

1. Make sure your network connection type is private

# To see if it's set to private or not run this
Get-NetConnectionProfile
# To set it to Private, run this (as admin)
Set-NetConnectionProfile -NetworkCategory Private

1. Enable PowerShell remoting

Enable-PSRemoting -Force

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On local computer:

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1. Make sure the Windows Remote Management (winrm) service is running

# Get the status of the winrm service
Get-Service winrm
# If it not running, start the service
Start-Service winrm
# Also set the service to start automatically (Delayed Start)
Set-Service "winrm" -StartupType Automatic

1. Add the ‘remote server’ to the trusted host list

# Add your 'remote server's' IP to the trusted host list
Set-Item WSMan:\localhost\Client\TrustedHosts -Value "192.168.1.1" -Force
# Or if IPs are constantly changing, add ALL IPs (* is the wildcard)
Set-Item WSMan:\localhost\Client\TrustedHosts -Value "*" -Force
# Check and make sure the right value is in the trusted host list
Get-Item WSMan:\localhost\Client\TrustedHosts
# To clear the trusted host list, run this
Set-Item WSMan:\localhost\Client\TrustedHosts -Value "" -Force

Connect to your remote server:

# If you are in CLI
Enter-PSSession -ComputerName 192.168.1.1 -Credential Get-Credential
# If you are in the ISE
$credential = Get-Credential
Enter-PSSession -ComputerName 192.168.1.1 -Credential $credential

If everything went right, you should see a prompt showing the remote PC IP

# e.g. like this:
[192.168.1.1]: PS C:\Users\Administrator>