PowerShell Remoting

Windows PowerShell remoting gives you complete control over your Windows system remotely similar to the Linux Shell Terminal with SSH. This is extreamly useful especial when combined with configuration management tools such as Ansible. By default PowerShell remoting is disabled and so it must be enabled and remote machines must be granted access before it can be used.

Enabling access

Using a PowerShell session as Administrator.

• Ensure the WinRM service is running

  get-service winrm

• Run the WinRM service and enable PowerShell remoting

  Enable-PSRemoting –force

• Enable users for access

  winrm s winrm/config/client '@{TrustedHosts="RemoteComputer"}'

• Enable for all remote machines

  Set-Item WSMan:\localhost\Client\TrustedHosts *

• Restarting the WinRM service

  Restart-Service winrm -Force

• Checking the status of the WinRM service

  winrm quickconfig

Running commands

    Invoke-Command -ComputerName COMPUTER -ScriptBlock { COMMAND } -credential USERNAME