PowerShell Core for Linux Administrators Cookbook

How to do it...

The New-PSSession, Enter-PSSession, and Invoke-Command cmdlets are the three cmdlets that help with the PowerShell remoting feature. Let's dig further to dissect the internals of PowerShell remoting:

1. To create a session to a remote Windows machine, run the following command:

PS> $Session= New-PSSession -HostName wintel01 -UserName ramram@wintel01's password:

2. To display the session details, call the $Session variable on the PowerShell console:

PS> $session

3. To enter the remoting session, use the session parameter, along with the Enter-PSSession cmdlet:

PS> Enter-PSSession -Session $session[wintel01]: PS>

4. To invoke the script on a remote machine, run the Invoke-Command cmdlet:

PS> Invoke-Command $session -ScriptBlock ...