PowerShell and WMI

Chapter 17. WMI over WSMAN

 

This chapter covers

• WSMAN protocols
• Using WMI through WSMAN
• Using CredSSP
• Comparing WSMAN and other remoting techniques

 

In the previous chapters, we’ve looked at using the capabilities built into the WMI cmdlets to provide access to remote systems. Using the -ComputerName parameter is a simple method of creating a connection to a remote machine, and this is the approach we’ve used in the majority of the techniques explored in previous chapters. But there are a number of scenarios where this approach isn’t enough:

• WMI uses Distributed COM (DCOM) to connect to a remote machine. This may not be available or may be blocked by a firewall.
• You may want to run multiple WMI commands against the same machine— ...