Instant Windows PowerShell Guide

Working remotely (Advanced)

There have been multiple modifications to PSRemoting with the release of Windows PowerShell Version 3.0. To perform remoting activities with PowerShell, we need to execute the Enable-PSRemoting CMDLET on remote computers.

Getting ready

• Enable-PSRemoting: This CMDLET in fact starts the WinRM service, sets it to the type automatic, creates a firewall exception, and prepares a session environment to perform remote tasks.
• -SkipNetworkProfileCheck [<SwitchParameter>]: Server versions of Windows have remote access from the local subnet by default, but if we are working with a client version and the computer is in the public network, we won't have remote access from the local subnet. In such cases, we need to either use the ...