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That is an intersting point. I recently attended the Microsoft Server 2012 Administration 5 day course where I learned about using the 2012 to manage the 2008 servers and there was no mention of this. But I guess I will not spend more time investigating this.<br />
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Thanks,
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That is an intersting point. I recently attended the Microsoft Server 2012 Administration 5 day course where I learned about using the 2012 to manage the 2008 servers and there was no mention of this. But I guess I will not spend more time investigating this.

Thanks,

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I turned on Remote management on 2008 server. Ran Enable-PSRemoting as well. UAC is turned off. I ran Winrs -r:&lt;remote ServerName&gt; cmd and was successful.<br />
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Yet on the 2012 management console it shows &quot;Online - cannot get role and feature data&quot;
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I turned on Remote management on 2008 server. Ran Enable-PSRemoting as well. UAC is turned off. I ran Winrs -r:<remote ServerName> cmd and was successful.

Yet on the 2012 management console it shows "Online - cannot get role and feature data"

Remote management on 2012 of 2008 servers

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.

Windows Server 2008

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.