Summary of PowerShell Remoting

00:00:00 - 00:35:00

This video explains how to use PowerShell to remotely audit devices in an environment. The video shows how to use PowerShell to get information about the devices in an environment, and how to use PowerShell to find and fix devices that are not working.

• 00:00:00 In this episode, we learn how to establish remote connections between two devices using Windows PowerShell. To do this, we first need to understand the protocol used, winrm. winrm is not natively installed on Windows machines, and you need to configure it to listen for remote connections. Once winrm is set up, we can use the Test-WSMan cmdlet to check if the devices are configured for remote access. Next, we'll look at the client side of the equation and see that it is configured to use specific authentication protocols and to use default ports when connecting outbound.
• 00:05:00 This video demonstrates how to use the WinRM cmdlets to configure a remote device for winrm remote access. The video also shows how to verify that the remote device is configured for winrm and accepting connections.
• 00:10:00 This video explains how to use PowerShell remoting to connect to a remote machine and run commands. The video also shows how to create and use sessions to connect to multiple machines.
• 00:15:00 PowerShell enables remote management of hundreds of devices using multiple sessions. This video demonstrates how to use PowerShell to quickly check the number of logical processors on a remote device, check the amount of memory on a remote device, and check the free space on a remote device.
• 00:20:00 This video explains how to establish remote PowerShell sessions using SSH. The user also discusses how to configure SSH for PowerShell and introduces the concept of trusted hosts.
• 00:25:00 In this video, the author shows how to connect to remote devices using PowerShell remoting. First, the author loads servers into a variable and specifies credentials for accessing the devices. Next, the author creates an array to store the results of the remote command. Next, the author demonstrates how to splat parameters to pre-determine the values. Finally, the author demonstrates how to use invoke splat to pre-determine the parameters for a remote command run.
• 00:30:00 This video demonstrates how to use PowerShell to remotely audit devices on a domain using the Connect-Remote cmdlet. The author creates custom objects to capture multiple pieces of information from various cmdlets, and then uses the Invoke-Command cmdlet to run the captured code against all of the devices on the domain.
• 00:35:00 This video demonstrates how to use PowerShell to remotely audit devices in an environment. The video shows how to use PowerShell to get information about the devices in an environment, and how to use PowerShell to find and fix devices that are not working.