In my quest to make my life easier, I have been waiting with bated breath to get my hands on the remoting features of PS v2. Now that I have access to windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, let the fun begin! When looking for information about these new features, where better to go than the source. I found this video on Tech.ED where Jeffery Snover (Powershell Godfather as he is introduced!) co presents using Powershell v2 in large Environments. From my findings (mainly from this video) there are primarily 2 new ways of gathering information from remote computers in PS v2, the all singing all dancing big brother that needs all the options installed and configured, and the little brother version which has less pre-requisites for the remote client, but does not do quite as much. The -computername switch (Little Brother) One of the biggest things missing in powershell 1 was the ability to run a cmdlet agains a remote machine. With PS v2 this has c...
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