Executing script existing only on a remote system using Invoke-Command

May 14, 2010

This is more of a personal note and may sound trivial to many of you out there. But just wanted to make sure I share it here. A while back, in my remoting series, I wrote about executing commands / scripts on a remote machine using Invoke-Command cmdlet. Talking specifically about scripts, you can use -FilePath parameter [...]

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eBook: Layman’s guide to PowerShell 2.0 remoting

March 18, 2010
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If are you a regular visitor to this blog, you may be aware of my PowerShell remoting series of blog articles. Traffic to this blog increased by almost 80% ever since I started the remoting series. This set of articles appear on the first page of Internet search almost all the time. The idea behind [...]

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Enabling PowerShell remoting for only a specified set of IP addresses

March 10, 2010
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I wasn’t so sure about the post title. But read on to understand what I really meant.  

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Remote file explorer using PowerShell remoting and Windows forms

February 23, 2010
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Last week, I released the remote file explorer powerpack for PowerGUI. The concept of this powerpack is quite simple. We use PowerShell remoting to access the PS drives of a remote machine and then use the same remoting channel to transfer files between computers.

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PowerShell 2.0 remoting guide: Part 12 – Using CredSSP for multi-hop authentication

February 18, 2010
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In this part of the remoting series, we look at how CredSSP  can be used for multi-hop authentication in PowerShell remoting. CredSSP and multi-hop support are not features of PowerShell 2.0 or PowerShell remoting, per se. Credential Security Service Provider (CredSSP) is a new security service provider that enables an application to delegate the user’s credentials from [...]

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PowerShell 2.0 remoting guide: Part 11 – Interpreting, formatting and displaying remote output

February 15, 2010
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In this part of the remoting series, we look at remoting output. This includes how the output is transferred from remote computer to local, how it is displayed and how we can format this output based on a need. We already discussed various methods to execute commands (part4, part 5 and part 6) on a remote [...]

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