Remote computing and PowerShell 2.0 part 1 – Getting started
It’s a pretty routine event for me to be remotely logged into more then one Windows server through Remote Desktop, or even occasionally sending a command from CMD to a remote server. PowerShell has not been left out of the game, when it comes to remote computing. If you have a Windows 7, and a Windows 2008 machine, then everything you need has likely already been installed. In this blog I will discuss the steps needed to make and accept connections from PowerShell, and discuss running a single command on a remote computer. If not then you will need to download and install the Windows Management Framework Core package. You can find it here: support.microsoft.com/kb/968930
The string value specified in the switch statement’s script block has to exactly match a condition for that condition to equal true. Despite it being unnecessary for exact matches, this would be the same as using the -exact option in a switch statement. There are other options available for use such as -wildcard which lets you use wildcards, and -regex which uses regular expressions. lets look at an example;
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