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The ability to create a remote connection, in an other way than using WMI, is the most important difference between PowerShell v 1.0 and 2.0.

Host applications can use a PowerShell object to run commands that use WS-Management-based Windows PowerShell remoting to create a temporary or persistent connection to the remote computer. This includes establishing an interactive session with a single remote computer.

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PowerShell Remote sessions and scope question: Commands appear to run locally

Here's a sample script that attempts to create a remote session on a server, then use WMI to get a list of the server's IIS application pools, and list their names: function Test-Remoting { [CmdletBinding()] param ( …
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Get Java version from PowerShell of remote server

I am trying to write a script in PowerShell that will use the invoke command with credentials on a remote machine to execute code that will return a string containing the Java version on that machine. Java is not installed, sometimes it is just…
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Enable PowerShell remoting on new Azure VM

I've created a new VM in Windows Azure to use to act as a host to learn a bit of Powershell Remoting. After the VM was created I RDP'd onto the box and enabled remoting via the following command: Enable-PSRemoting I confirmed both prompts with 'a'…
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Check remote PowerShell session status in C#

I create PowerShell Remoting session per the following code: AuthenticationMechanism auth = AuthenticationMechanism.Negotiate; WSManConnectionInfo ci = new WSManConnectionInfo( false, sRemote, 5985, @"/wsman", …
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How to create a local windows user account using remote powershell?

tried creating users with powershel.This worked fine for local machine. But how to create a local user account in a remote machine using remote powershell? The script localwindows.ps1 is $comp = [adsi]'WinNT://machinename,computer'; $user =…
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Why does the Windows Remote Management service insist on being "delayed start"?

I'm running into some issues with the WinRM service. It constantly insists on being a "delayed start (automatic)" service instead of just "automatic". Why? This is causing issues for my VMs (on Hyper-V). I revert them programatically by PowerShell…
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get list of all the tasks of a remote windows machine from linux machine

Is it possible to get list of tasks running in a remote windows box from linux machine ? we can use tasklist with remote switch but you have do that from another windows machine. is there a way to access same information from linux machine.
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In PowerShell how to copy files from a Remote PSsession to another Windows server

I am trying to copy a folder from one remote server to another inside a PSSession, it's giving errors like access is denied. I have admin privileges to both of the servers. If I try it without PSSession it works. In remote serverA PS…
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PowerShell ScriptBlock and multiple functions

I have written the following code: cls function GetFoo() { function GetBar() { $bar = "bar" $bar } $foo = "foo" $bar = GetBar $foo $bar } $cred = Get-Credential "firmwide\srabhi_adm" $result =…
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powershell Foreach-Object

I have this array (simplyfied): $v = 3,5,3,6,8,3,5,7 I need to check if all the values are higher than 3. I think that Foreach or Foreach-Object will be suitable for this task, but I can't figure out the way it works. I've tried something like…
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CredSSP PowerShell Session fails when using Kerberos for machine authentication

We are attempting to use CredSSP authentication for multi-hop PowerShell remoting, and one of our clients is running into a snag that prevents them from creating PSSessions using CredSSP when specifying the FQDN of the target server. Both server and…
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Copy folder from remote machine (Azure) to remote machine

I have two machines say Machine-A: An azure vm role on cloud. Machine-B: A machine on my network domain. I can remote login to both MachineA and MachineB (using RDP) and copy say a folder 'temp' from location \MachineA.cloudapp.net\C$\temp to…
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PowerShell create remote instance of IE with Invoke-Command

I'm trying to spawn an IE instance remotely via PowerShell. Invoke-Command -computername foo -scriptblock { $ie = New-Object -ComObject InternetExplorer.Application $ie.Visible = $true $ie.Navigate("http://duckduckgo.com") } It spawns…
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Remotely running Get-EventLog wipes actual event log

I wrote a script to remotely fetch event logs in PowerShell, but I'm not a fan of the way the script makes its own event log entries. Specifically this script grabs several types of event IDs including the logon/logoff events. Recently I was asked…
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powershell remote jobs

Why am I getting the error for the code below: Get-Job -Id 1 | Select-Object -ExpandProperty childjobs | Where-Object {$_.state -eq 'Completed'} | Select-Object -ExpandProperty id | Receive-Job Receive-Job : The input object cannot be bound to…
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