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<p>Server Manager console is a great tool that I have tried to use on Windows 8 and now Windows 8.1 but I had connection issues.</p>
<p>Once I have added couple of servers to manage via Server Manager console, during discovery I ran into the following errors:</p>
<p><strong>Online &#8211; Data retrieval failures occurred</strong></p>
<p>Once I have checked the details of this error message here&#8217;s what I got:</p>
<p><strong>%servername%: Configuration refresh failed with the following error: The metadata failded to be tetrieved from the server, due to the following error: The WinRM client received an HTTP status code of 502 from the remote WS-Management service.</strong></p>
<p>I should mention that I was using Server Manager console under domain admin rights. Although I was admin I have added my account to the <strong>WinRMRemoteWMIUsers_</strong> group on the server, but without luck.</p>
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<p><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">After than I have tried with netsh command as this helped me once I got Store connection problems with Windows 8 and 8.1.</span></p>
<p>I have run the following command:</p>
<p><strong>netsh winHTTP set proxy proxy-server=&#8221;http://%proxyname:port%&#8221; bypass-list=&#8221;%*.domainname%&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>After you run this command try to refresh Server Manager console on your machine and you should be able to connect and manage servers normally.</p>
<p>If you still have issues, please post below and I&#8217;ll try to help.</p>