Configuring PowerChute Network Shutdown on Server Core

Everyone installing Hyper-V servers is installing them as Server Core servers, right?

I recently hit an issue configuring APC’s PowerChute Network Shutdown (PCNS) software on a Server Core installation of Windows Server 1809 (the most recent release of the semi-annual channel) whereby while the installation appeared to complete successfully, I could not communicate with the service to configure it post-installation.

After a little digging, it turned out that the installer had created the firewall rule exemptions for to wrong profile (i.e. public rather than domain). The solution was to run the following PowerShell to update the profile for the PCNS firewall rules to match the network profile the server was operating on:

Get-NetFirewallRule | where {$_.DisplayName -like "PCNS*"} | Set-NetFirewallRule -Profile Domain

Once the firewall rules were updated, communication was restored and configuration could be completed from a browser running on another machine.