18.2. Using CCS on remote web servers

At the time of this writing, the graphical IIS manager can’t enable and configure CCS on a web server that you can’t physically (or RDP) access. If you’re using Server Core, then even RDP won’t help, because you don’t have a graphical manager anyway.

In this case the only solution is to use PowerShell. I’ll show you the same process covered in the preceding section, only this time using PowerShell. Let’s get started by installing the central provider component on a remote server and taking a look at the cmdlets that become available.

18.2.1. Installing CCS on remote servers

By now you know what’s coming next—the installation of the component on remote servers using PowerShell Remoting.

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