How objects are sent to and from remote sessions

PowerShell Team January 7, 2010 Jan 7, 2010 01/7/10

Instead of piping unstructured text, Windows PowerShell pipes objects between commands in a pipeline.  As a consequence PowerShell remoting also deals with objects when passing data to and from remote sessions.  This post explains how remote objects are serialized and which types of objects can be sent with full fidelity.  You ...

Saving remote session to your local disk

PowerShell Team December 29, 2009 Dec 29, 2009 12/29/09

Read the previous post on implict remoting to learn how the Import-PSSession cmdlet makes it easier to work with remote commands by presenting them as if they were local commands. This user experience saves you the trouble of typing long Invoke-Command incantations to pass arguments to remote commands or to download remote help content. The ...

Bringing remote commands to your local session

PowerShell Team December 29, 2009 Dec 29, 2009 12/29/09

How can you manage multiple technologies installed on separate machines that expose their management surface through cmdlets?  One approach would be to open remote desktop connection to each of those machines, another approach would be to send commands using Invoke-Command and PowerShell Remoting.  But remote desktop is not a ...

How to pass arguments for remote commands

PowerShell Team December 29, 2009 Dec 29, 2009 12/29/09

When invoking remote commands, one often wants to use local values as arguments to the remote command. This post explains how to do that. Hardcoded values Let's start with a simple example. Below you can see how Get-Process is invoked in a remote session when the Id parameter is set to 0: Passing local values What if we want to calculate ...

Managing Remote Sessions

PowerShell Team June 4, 2009 Jun 4, 2009 06/4/09

  PowerShell V2 introduces a new capability which allows you to remotely manage machines in your organization. You may have already tried this new feature. In this blog, I will show how an administrator can manage different remote sessions (created by different users from different clients) Scenario: Using PowerShell remoting, normal ...

Manage winrm settings with wsman provider

PowerShell Team January 6, 2009 Jan 6, 2009 01/6/09

PowerShell remoting is built on top of Windows Remote Management (WinRM), which is Microsoft’s implementation of WS-Management protocol. You can use winrm.cmd command line tool to query and manage winrm settings. PowerShell V2 CTP3 contains a wsman provider for you to manage winrm settings with the standard *-Item cmdlets . Let’s try it ...

CredSSP for second-hop remoting

PowerShell Team June 5, 2008 Jun 5, 2008 06/5/08

PS C:\> $r = New-PSSessionPS C:\> icm $r {Get-PfxCertificate c:\monad\TestpfxFile.pfx}Enter password:Invoke-Command : The requested operation cannot be completed. The computer must be trusted for delegation and the current user account must be configured to allow delegation.At line:1 char:4+ icm <<<<  $r {Get-...