JUNE 7-10, 2010 | NEW ORLEANS, LA

Managing Your Enterprise from a Single Seat: Windows PowerShell RemotingDon JonesSenior Partner and TechnologistConcentrated Technology, LLC

SESSION CODE: WSV319

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IntroductionsMe: Don Jones, Concentrated Technology

Microsoft MVP Award recipientContributing Editor, TechNet MagazineAuthor of 45+ IT booksBlogger at http://ConcentratedTech.com

You: A Busy Windows AdministratorLooking to enable single-seat administrationComfortable with command-line tools and utilities

AgendaAbout PowerShell RemotingDeploying PowerShell Remoting1:1 Remote Shell1:Many “Fan-Out” RemotingSessionsImplicit Remoting

How Remoting WorksUtilizes WinRM v2

First shipped with PowerShell v2, installs with PowerShell v2Auto-starts on servers, but not on clients (consider configuring to auto-start)Communicates via HTTP or HTTPSDefault ports are not 80/443; ports can be customized

Applications register with WinRM as an endpointThis tells WinRM the application is thereWinRM must be configured to permit this (e.g., secure by default)

Also: WS-MAN (Web Services for Management) is the protocol name

PowerShell RequirementsPowerShell v2 only on both ends

Ships with Win7 and Win2008R2; downloadable for Win2003, Vista, WinXPMust explicitly enable WinRM, register PowerShell as an endpoint, on machine that will accept incoming connections

Run Enable-PSRemoting or Disable-PSRemoting (to disable)No configuration needed on computers that will initiate connections (e.g., where you are physically sitting)Remoting is a strong argument for deploying PowerShell v2 everywhere and enabling remotingRemoting can also be controlled via Group Policy object (download ADM template for Win2008 and Win2003; comes with Win2008R2)

Enabling Remoting

DEMO

1:1 RemotingThink “SSH” functionality – interactive remote command lineUse Enter-PSSession and computer name to startUse Exit-PSSession to “go home” and close the connection

Help for Enter-PSSession shows parameters for specifying non-default ports, alternate credentials, etc.

1:1 Remoting

DEMO

1:Many RemotingUse Invoke-Command with a list of computer names (many ways to provide that list)Specify a command in a –scriptblock {}, or specify a –file to run

Local files will be pushed out to the remote computer(s)-command is an alias for –scriptblockSeparate multiple commands with ; in the scriptblock

Throttled to 32 machines at once by default (can modify)Can specify alternate ports/credentials/etcRuns synchronously; use –AsJob to run as a background job

What Comes BackResults on the remote computers are serialized into XML for transmission across the wirePSComputerName property is added with the name of the computer each object came from (useful for sorting/grouping)XML is deserialized when received on your end, and turned back into objectsDeserialized objects are not “live;” they are snapshots, and do not contain methods (e.g., they’re static)Ran as a job? Use Receive-Job to get the results objects from the job (specify –keep to keep the results cached, or capture them into a variable or something)

1:Many Remoting and Jobs

DEMO

SessionsSpecifying –computerName with Invoke-Command or Enter-PSSession creates a session, uses it, and then closes itInconvenient if you want to connect to the same computer again and again, especially if you’re specifying ports/credentials/etcUse New-PSSession to create persistent connectionsConsumes memory/process (a tiny bit) on both endsUse Remove-PSSession to close connections; Get-PSSession to get a list of themPass session to –session parameter of Invoke-Command or Enter-PSSession to re-use the session

Sessions

DEMO

A Troubling ScenarioNew modules are shipping all the time – such as the ActiveDirectory module in Windows Server 2008 R2These modules often can’t be installed on older versions of WindowsThe trick is to have remoting enabled on a machine where the module can be run……and to use implicit remoting to make it look like that module is installed on your local computer

Implicit Remoting1. Use New-PSSession to create a session to the computer hosting the

module2. Use Invoke-Command with that session to tell the remote computer to

load the module into memory3. Use Import-PSSession to import the commands from that module to your

local computer (temporarily)• Specify a noun prefix if desired, to avoid overlap

4. Run commands, even ask for help on them5. Use Remove-PSSession to close the connection when you’re done

Implicit Remoting

DEMO

SummaryWinRM implements the WS-MAN service that makes it workEnable remoting on receiving machines onlyUse Enter-PSSession and Invoke-Command Persistent sessions with *-PSSessionImplicit remoting for easier access to remote modules

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