5 PowerShell remote execution
This chapter covers
- Designing scripts for remote execution
- PowerShell-based remoting
- Hypervisor-based remoting
- Agent-based remoting
The ability to execute remote PowerShell commands is not only essential for recurring automations, but is also a powerful tool to have in your arsenal for ad-hoc situations. Just think back on your career and remember times when you needed to gather large-scale information about your environment or apply a change across multiple servers at once. You will quickly realize this is a common situation for any IT department. And, in some cases, especially security-related ones, time can be of the essence. Therefore, before these situations arise, you will want to have PowerShell remoting ...
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