Packer stuck at "Waiting for WinRM to become available..."

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I’m trying to deploy Windows Server VMWare template with packer.
Everything works till the step “Waiting for WinRM to become available…” becomes.

I tried all different scripts to enable WinRM but nothing seems to help.
Also disabled firewall.

What I noticed is that because the server (domain joined) where I’m running packer on has GPO applied which doesn’t AllowUnencrypted authentication. All Enabled WinRM configurations I notice this is set to True.

Is there method how I can get it working when this is set to False?
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Thanks!

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Hello David, if you can’t get rid of your GPO, you should try to configure an HTTPS listener and then change winrm_port to 5986 into your packer build.

Here’s a great tutorial : Packer and WinRM – mystery resolved – ConfigMgr.nl