Chapter 11. PowerShell remoting

This chapter covers

  • Commands with built-in remoting
  • PowerShell remoting subsystem
  • Using PowerShell remoting
  • Remoting sessions, persistent connections, and implicit remoting
  • Remoting considerations and custom remoting sessions

In a day when you don’t come across any problems, you can be sure that you are traveling in the wrong path.

Swami Vivekananda

PowerShell is a tool intended for enterprise and cloud management but if it can’t manage distributed systems it isn’t useful. Fortunately, PowerShell has a comprehensive built-in remoting subsystem. This facility allows you to handle most remoting tasks in any kind of configuration you might encounter.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the features of ...

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