Cannot connect to Core Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 with RDP

So i was thinking to add a new Core Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 to my network at home based on a workgroup and configure it with RDP after enabling the Remote Management and Remote Desktop from the console. That’s a no go by default… What do i mean? it turns out Core Hyper-V Server 2012, and Core Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 have their firewalls on by default and configured to drop everything from the public profile (all rules are disabled)
The Startup menu of the server does not change these profiles to allow RDP traffic in (it only allows the Domain and Private profiles to allow the RDP traffic)
So how do you enable these rules?

1. Configure the Firewall locally from Command line
2. Use CoreConfig tool for Server core 2012

The First one requires you to log on locally to the Core Hyper-V Server 2012 and use the PowerShell to enable these Firewall rules.
it is done this way:

Set-NetFirewallRule -DisplayGroup “Windows Firewall Remote Management” -Profile Public -Enabled True

The configuration with CoreConfig is done with a GUI. just download the source and copy it to a local folder on the Core Hyper-V Server 2012. start PowerShell from the command shell by typing: PowerShell after the Prompt. browse to the folder in which you copied the CoreCofig files and .\CoreConfig.ps1.

Now simply browse to the Control panel:



Click on the firewall settings



And enable the Remote Desktop rule (the active Firewall profile (Public) is selected by default)



That’s it, see you next time.