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Powershell: How to run commands on a remote server

If you want to run PowerShell commands remotely, this post could help you.

Checking if you already have access to the remote server, from the workstation you want use: 

Test-WsMan COMPUTERNAME

You should get something like that: 

wsmid           : http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wsman/identity/1/wsmanidentity.xsd
ProtocolVersion : http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wsman/1/wsman.xsd
ProductVendor   : Microsoft Corporation
ProductVersion  : OS: 0.0.0 SP: 0.0 Stack: 3.0

If you don’t have access, use the following command to enable PSRemoting on the server you want: 

Enable-PSRemoting -SkipNetworkProfileCheck

Note that it won’t work if the server or workstation is using a public network, the command check network profiles before applying this change. However, I got a weird behavior where none of my network profiles were using a public profile but PSRemoting was telling me the opposite. To workaround this, use the following command: 

Enable-PSRemoting -SkipNetworkProfileCheck -Force

Running a command from a station to a server

Use the following command

Invoke-Command -ComputerName COMPUTERNAME -ScriptBlock { COMMAND } -credential USERNAME

Opening a remote PowerShell session

Enter-PSSession -ComputerName COMPUTERNAME -Credential USER