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Remoting and Remote Management

Windows remoting came to PowerShell with the release of version 2.0. Windows remoting is a powerful feature that allows administrators to move away from RPC-based remote access.

This chapter covers the following topics:

  • WS-Management
  • PSSessions
  • Remoting on Linux
  • Remoting over SSH
  • The double-hop problem
  • CIM sessions
  • Just Enough Administration

Before beginning with the main topics of the chapter, there are some technical requirements to consider.

Technical requirements

This chapter makes use of a remote Windows system named PSTest, which runs Windows 10, Windows PowerShell 5.1, and PowerShell 7.

Remoting between Windows and Linux is demonstrated using a system that runs CentOS 7, PowerShell 7, and the PowerShell ...

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