windows eventing Access Denied Error 401
2 years ago
Originally Published: 2013-06-28
Article Number
000050715
Issue
2013-Jun-04 10:04:00 %NIC  Endpoint=http://1.2.3.4:5985, HTTP Status=401
Cause
During the configuration of windows eventing the collector service may fail as indicated above and this is a a result of "Allow Unencrypted" not enabled. 
Resolution

Please run the following command on the end client windows machine. 

winrm set winrm/config/service @{AllowUnencrypted="true"}