

This is much friendlier to network firewalls when compared to other legacy communication protocols such as the distributed component object model (DCOM) and remote procedure call (RPC), which use numerous ports and dynamic port mappings. The Windows Remote Management (WinRM) service is the Microsoft implementation of WS-Management, WinRM is at the heart of Windows PowerShell remoting but this service can also be used by other non-PowerShell applications.īy default, WS-Man and PowerShell remoting use port 59 for connections over HTTP and HTTPS, respectively. WS-Management is a distributed management task force (DMTF) open standard that depends on HTTP (or HTTPS) protocol. Windows PowerShell remoting relies on the web services managements (WS-Man) protocol. The commands do not have to be available on the computer that originates the connection it is enough if just the remote computers are able to execute the commands. Windows PowerShell remoting provides a method to transmit any command to a remote computer for local execution. There will be demonstrations to highlight how remoting works by getting information, creating objects, changing settings, and assigning user permissions to a group of computers remotely. Now we will examine the remoting features in PowerShell 4.0 and explore the protocols, services, and configurations needed for remoting to function. The previous article in this series explored Active Directory Domain Services management with PowerShell. Remote Management with PowerShell (Part 2).Using PowerShell to Manage AD and AD Users.

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