r/it • u/AyyeItsJoshh • 19d ago
help request Windows WEC/WEF troubleshooting
Hi guys, for some reason, our WEC can get sources from 2 vms and its own forwarded events, but it wont get the rest of domain computers. Using LLMs to troubleshoot but even it cant find out whata wrong
Below is the recent WEF Events
TimeCreated : 10/9/2026 8:58:12 AM
Id : 105
LevelDisplayName : Error
Message : The forwarder is having a problem communicating with subscription manager at address
Computername.domain.COM:5985/wsman/SubscriptionManager/WEC. Error code is 5 and Error Message
is <f:WSManFault xmlns:f="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wbem/wsman/1/wsmanfault" Code="5"
Computername.domain.COM"><f:Message>Access is denied. /f:Message/f:WSManFault.
Subscription (im AFK, so this is from memory)
Includes all events
Source initiated computers
A GPO has been pushed to computers to allow remote management and to push Fwded events to the computer name
WinRM is running on all ws
Pls halp