Remote powershell to Connection Brokers 2012R2

Question

Good morning everyone!
Task is to get information about RDS status from remote machines.
Local poweshell on Connection Brokers works fine:
PS C:\> Import-Module RemoteDesktop
PS C:\> (Get-RDConnectionBrokerHighAvailability).ActiveManagementServer
ms-s-tscb02.sodrugestvo.local
But if we try to do this remotly it gives error:
PS C:\> New-PSSession -ComputerName ms-s-tscb02.sodrugestvo.local -Name RDS
 Id Name            ComputerName    State         ConfigurationName     Availability
 26 RDS             ms-s-tscb02.... Opened        Microsoft.PowerShell     Available
PS C:\>
PS C:\> Enter-PSSession -Name RDS
[ms-s-tscb02.sodrugestvo.local]: PS C:\Users\Administrator.SODRUGESTVO\Documents> cd \
[ms-s-tscb02.sodrugestvo.local]: PS C:\> Import-Module RemoteDesktop
[ms-s-tscb02.sodrugestvo.local]: PS C:\> (Get-RDConnectionBrokerHighAvailability).ActiveManagementServer
Get-RDConnectionBrokerHighAvailability : The RD Connection Broker server is not available. Verify that you can connect
to the RD Connection Broker server.
At line:1 char:2
+ (Get-RDConnectionBrokerHighAvailability).ActiveManagementServer
+  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Write-Error], WriteErrorException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.WriteErrorException,Get-RDConnectionBrokerHighAvailability
Can someone give a tip or direction to look at?
Regards, Dmitriy Ilyin

Answer 1

Hi,
Does it work if you specify the connection broker FQDN, like this:
(Get-RDConnectionBrokerHighAvailability -ConnectionBroker ms-s-tscb02.sodrugestvo.local).ActiveManagementServer
-TP
Hmm... First: as i sad command
(Get-RDConnectionBrokerHighAvailability).ActiveManagementServer 
works just fine if I run it localy. So thats not a problem. I have 3 CB and i just need to find who is active at this moment.
Second: I found the problem. Just need to use -Credential while create new session.
$OnPremisesPlainPassword = "XXXXXXXXXXXX"
$OnPremisesUsername = "sodrugestvo\administrator"
$OnPremisesSecurePassword = $OnPremisesPlainPassword | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force
$OnPremisesCredentials = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -ArgumentList $OnPremisesUsername, $OnPremisesSecurePassword
New-PSSession -ComputerName ms-s-tscb02.sodrugestvo.local -Name CB02 -Authentication CredSSP -Credential $OnPremisesCredentials
Enter-PSSession -Name CB02
Import-Module RemoteDesktop
(Get-RDConnectionBrokerHighAvailability).ActiveManagementServer
Exit-PSSession
And here result:
PS C:\Users\administrator> New-PSSession -ComputerName ms-s-tscb02.sodrugestvo.local -Name CB02 -Authentication CredSSP
-Credential $OnPremisesCredentials
 Id Name            ComputerName    State    ConfigurationName     Availability
  1 CB02            ms-s-tscb02.... Opened   Microsoft.PowerShell     Available
PS C:\Users\administrator>
PS C:\Users\administrator> Enter-PSSession -Name CB02
[ms-s-tscb02.sodrugestvo.local]: PS C:\Users\Administrator.SODRUGESTVO\Documents> Import-Module RemoteDesktop
[ms-s-tscb02.sodrugestvo.local]: PS C:\Users\Administrator.SODRUGESTVO\Documents> (Get-RDConnectionBrokerHighAvailability).ActiveManagementServer
ms-s-tscb02.sodrugestvo.local
[ms-s-tscb02.sodrugestvo.local]: PS C:\Users\Administrator.SODRUGESTVO\Documents> Exit-PSSession
Regards, Dmitriy Ilyin