I am beginning to feel stupid so I am posting here instead of beating my head on the wall.
I have a Windows 8 VM installed in Parallels on my MacBook Pro and I just installed Server 2012 Core on a Dell T410 I have laying around.
I installed the RSAT tools in Windows 8, launched Server Manager and added the server via DNS.
When it failed, I looked through this TechNet post and did as it said but Server Manager will still not connect.
For trouble shooting purposes I disabled the firewall on both boxes via "netsh advfirewall set allprofiles state off" with no difference.
On the Server I ran "sconfig" and made sure that remote management was enabled.
Any ideas?