Chapter 15. Managing Remote Windows 7 Systems

This chapter provides information and commands concerning the following topics:

Configuring Windows 7 for remote administration

Connecting to remote systems with mstsc

Configuring Windows Remote Management with winrm

Executing commands remotely with winrs

Configuring Windows 7 for Remote Administration

Before you can remotely administer a Windows 7 system, it needs to be configured. There are different ways of doing this depending on what you’re trying to accomplish.

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These three tasks are described in more depth in the following sections.

Configuring System for Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) ...

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