How to enable the Firewall rules required by Veeam ONE on the Windows Server Core OS

Challenge

Cause

Due to the Windows Server Core OS limitations, it is impossible to enable the necessary Firewall rules required by Veeam ONE using Windows Firewall UI.

Solution

Enable the rules

CMD (Command line)

To enable these rules via the command line, launch the command prompt console with elevated permissions (as Administrator) and execute the command below:

netsh advfirewall firewall set rule name="Remote Event Log Management (NP-In)" new enable= Yes
netsh advfirewall firewall set rule name="Remote Event Log Management (RPC)" new enable= Yes
netsh advfirewall firewall set rule name="Remote Event Log Management (RPC-EPMAP)" new enable= Yes
netsh advfirewall firewall set rule name="COM+ Network Access (DCOM-In)" new enable= Yes

PowerShell

To enable these rules via the PowerShell, launch the PowerShell console with elevated permissions (as Administrator) and execute the command below:

Set-NetFirewallRule -Name 'RemoteEventLogSvc-NP-In-TCP' -Enabled True
Set-NetFirewallRule -Name 'RemoteEventLogSvc-In-TCP' -Enabled True
Set-NetFirewallRule -Name 'RemoteEventLogSvc-RPCSS-In-TCP' -Enabled True
Set-NetFirewallRule -Name 'ComPlusNetworkAccess-DCOM-In' -Enabled True

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