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Chapter 18. Sessions: remote control, with less work

Back in chapter 10, I introduced you to PowerShell’s remoting features. In that chapter, you used two primary cmdlets—Invoke-Command and Enter-PSSession—to access both one-to-many and one-to-one remote control. Each of those cmdlets worked by creating a new remoting connection, doing whatever work you specified, and then closing that connection. There’s nothing wrong with that approach, but it can be tiring to have to continually specify computer names, credentials, alternative port numbers, and so on. In this chapter, we’ll look at an easier, more reusable way of tackling remoting. You’ll also learn about a third way of using remoting that will really come in handy.

18.1. Making PowerShell ...