Secrets of Client and ServerRemote Control

with Windows PowerShell

Don Jones

Concentrated Technology

http://ConcentratedTech.com

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Title slide

• Why Remoting?• The Many Forms of Remote Control• WinRM / WS-MAN: The Enabling Technology• Enabling and Configuring Remoting• 1-to-1 Remoting• 1-to-Many Remoting and Deserialized Objects• Background Jobs• Sessions, Session Options, and More• Implicit Remoting

• Demo-Heavy Session!

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Why Remoting?

• Strategic way to move from single-machine management to multi-machine management

• Usable on client and server computers• Available for Windows XP and later (with

Windows PowerShell v2 installed); installed by default on Windows 7 and later (not enabled)

• Many different modes of use

The Many Forms of Remote Control

• Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)● Utilizes RPCs for communications● Primarily for retrieving management info

• A –computername parameter● E.g., Get-Service and Get-Process● Utilizes underlying technology for communications● Available on only a few cmdlets

• PowerShell Remoting● Generic, good for all commands● Utilizes WinRM / WS-MAN for communications● “The New Standard”

WinRM and WS-MAN

• WS-MAN is the protocol• WinRM is the implementing service• WSMAN: drive in PowerShell exposes configuration• Easy to set up in a domain environment; a bit tricky in a

non-domain environment● Help about_remote_troubleshooting

• WinRM is a “traffic director;” must register endpoints that will receive WinRM traffic

● Any given app can register multiple endpoints● WinRM traffic occurs over HTTP by default (not port 80)

It’s All Demo From Here

• Let’s spend some time working with WinRM and remoting

• Please raise any questions as we go!

• I will capture a transcript of my shell activity● Download next week from

ConcentratedTech.com (“Downloads”)

DEMOEnabling and Configuring Remoting

1-to-1 Remoting

1-to-Many Remoting

Background Jobs

Sessions and Session Configuration

Implicit Remoting

Final Q&A

• Text DONJ to 50500 for contact info

• See me for add’l resources

● Books● Workshop recordings● Demo videos● Etc

• Slide decks posted to ConcentratedTech.com by next week

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This work is copyright ©Concentrated Technology, LLC