Windows PowerShell™ 2.0: Administrator’s Pocket Consultant

Chapter 4. Using Sessions, Jobs, and Remoting

• Enabling Remote Commands

• Executing Remote Commands

• Establishing Remote Sessions

• Establishing Remote Background Jobs

• Working Remotely Without WinRM

Windows PowerShell V2 supports remote execution of commands, remote sessions, and remote background jobs. When you work remotely, you type commands in Windows PowerShell on your computer but execute the commands on one or more remote computers. To work remotely, your computer and the remote computer must both have PowerShell V2, the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, and Windows Remote Management 2.0.

Enabling Remote Commands

The Windows PowerShell remoting features are supported by the WS-Management protocol and the Windows Remote Management (WinRM) service that implements ...