Introducing PsTools
The Sysinternals Suite of remote-control tools bears mention in this chapter as well. The PsTools binaries provide a method for remote system administration using the command-line. While PowerShell fills the need for powerful command-line remoting capabilities in Windows 10, earlier editions come with older versions of PowerShell by default or don't even come with it at all.
Installation is as simple as downloading the PsTools suite from https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/pstools.aspx and extracting the ZIP file. Execute them in an elevated Command Prompt. Setting them as part of your system path can be handy but also an easy attack vector, so carefully considers the impact before configuring.
The tools themselves ...
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