Automating Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 Administration with Windows PowerShell® 2.0

Configure Windows PowerShell Remoting

Unlike classic remoting, which provides limited remoting capabilities via only a handful of cmdlets, Windows PowerShell Remoting is more of an architectural layer that allows any cmdlet to be used remotely.

Windows PowerShell Remoting works by using Windows Remote Management (WinRM), which is Microsoft's implementation of the WS-Management Protocol. WS-Management is a standards-based protocol specification using SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)-based Web services. This implementation provides a common, firewall-friendly way for systems to access and exchange information across various systems from different vendors.

Using WinRM, Windows PowerShell is able to connect to a remote computer and create a new ...