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Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting (Second Edition) - Second Edition

By : Brenton J.W. Blawat
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Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting (Second Edition) - Second Edition

By: Brenton J.W. Blawat

Overview of this book

PowerShell scripts offer a handy way to automate various chores. Working with these scripts effectively can be a difficult task. This comprehensive guide starts from scratch and covers advanced-level topics to make you a PowerShell expert. The first module, PowerShell Fundamentals, begins with new features, installing PowerShell on Linux, working with parameters and objects, and also how you can work with .NET classes from within PowerShell. In the next module, you’ll see how to efficiently manage large amounts of data and interact with other services using PowerShell. You’ll be able to make the most of PowerShell’s powerful automation feature, where you will have different methods to parse and manipulate data, regular expressions, and WMI. After automation, you will enter the Extending PowerShell module, which covers topics such as asynchronous processing and, creating modules. The final step is to secure your PowerShell, so you will land in the last module, Securing and Debugging PowerShell, which covers PowerShell execution policies, error handling techniques, and testing. By the end of the book, you will be an expert in using the PowerShell language.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

WS-Management


Windows remoting uses WS-Management as its communication protocol. Support for WS-Management and remoting were introduced with PowerShell 2.0. WS-Management uses Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) to pass information between the client and the server.

Enabling remoting

Before remoting can be used, it must be enabled. In a domain environment, remoting can be enabled using a group policy:

  • Policy name: Allow remote server management through WinRM
  • Path: Computer configuration \ Administrative Templates \ Windows Components \ Windows Remote Management (WinRM) \ WinRM Service

If remoting is enabled using a group policy, a firewall rule should be created to allow access to the service:

  • Policy name: Define inbound port exceptions
  • Path: Computer Configuration \ Administrative Templates \ Network \ Network Connections \ Windows Firewall \ Domain Profile
  • Port exception example: 5985:TCP:*:enabled:WSMan

Windows remoting can be enabled on a per-machine basis using the Enable-PSRemoting command...