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Managing Windows Powershell from Linux terminal
I manage Windows Server 2012 servers. I'm learning PowerShell to manage these servers through command line. My workstation runs Ubuntu and I usually manage Linux servers by connecting via SSH.
Is ...
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Enabling Powershell Remoting, Access is denied?
I am trying to enable Powershell remoting on a Windows 2008 R2 Server, running in workgroup mode.
I ran the command Enable-PSRemoting in the PowerShell Console.
PS C:\Windows\system32> Enable-...
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How to persist credentials in a remote Powershell session?
I have an Azure File Share and would like to use this from my Azure VMs - after persisting the credentials on the VMs with cmdkey and mounting with net use. This was tested by running these commands ...
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Windows Remote Management Over Untrusted Domains
I am currently trying to enable Windows Remote Management (specifically, Powershell Remoting) between 2 untrusted domains, and having no luck.
A brief description of my setup:
domain1 - my ...
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Powershell Get-Process : Couldn't connect to remote machine
Been struggling with this for a couple days now.
I'm getting the following error:
PS C:\> get-process -ComputerName Win2012r2
get-process : Couldn't connect to remote machine.
At line:1 char:1
+...
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Test for Localhost in Powershell?
I have a powershell script that calls Get-WmiObject with -Credential. However, this errors out if I am running it against the local machine:
Get-WmiObject : User credentials cannot be used for local ...
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How can I run a PowerShell function remotely?
Using powershell, I plan to run many functions on a remote host to gather information.
Here is an example to retrieve the content of file remotely just by running a function called getcontentfile ...
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How to rejoin domain when trust relationship is lost
I have a number of virtual machines which have snapshots applied by using a PowerShell script. Occasionally, the virtual machines lose their "trust relationship" with the domain. This breaks the ...
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Automatically reconfigure WinRM HTTPS listener with new certificate?
I am looking to enable WinRM HTTPS listeners on all of our servers for secure communication when using CredSSP between servers to get around the double-hop issue.
Setting this up is fine, we have CN-...
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How do I run commands on a remote machine with admin privilege using powershell
How do I run commands on a remote machine with admin privilege (example: running as Run as Administrator) using PowerShell.
So far I have tried
start-process powershell.exe -verb runas -...
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Unable able to run remote Powershell using Active Directory
We are trying to connect to a remote server via Powershell and use the ActiveDirectory module. When trying to do this locally, everything seems to be fine.
PS C:\Users\bar> Import-Module ...
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Powershell remoting suddenly stops working
I'm having trouble executing a remote powershell script which is supposed to update the installation
of an application for automated testing in a taskmanager task running once a day.
The rather ...
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Execute program on remote computer using PowerShell
How can I execute a program on a remote machine using powershell?
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How can I connect to a cisco switch via serial console cable from powershell?
I don't actually need to perform any operations on the switch. I just need to verify it's there.
I have some remote servers that I need to verify have the blue serial console cable hooked up ...
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Why can a Domain Admin run a powershell cmd locally, but connecting over WinRM with the same account, command returns an UnauthorizedAccessException?
I'm trying to administer a Windows 7 machine remotely. I've enabled WinRM and can use Enter-PsSession to connect to the remote machine.
However, I'm noticing a difference between running a particular ...
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Remove Server 2012 Remote Access Server
My IT director was walking me through setting up a Server 2012 VPN/RA server. We did not do this in our test environment, and now I would like to remove it.
I know that when installing this server it ...
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Why does my PowerShell script hang when called in PSEXEC via a batch (.cmd) file?
I'm trying to remotely execute a PowerShell script using PSEXEC. The PowerShell script is called via a .cmd batch file. The reason we do this is to change the execution policy, run the powershell ...
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Can I RDP through mstsc and run a script on that remote desktop?
I'm writing a powershell script which needs to RDP to a few servers and do processes there and then come back.
mstsc /v:<computer> by itself looks great as it's security/credential prompt is ...
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How can I grant Dial-In / Network Access Permission to local account via command line?
I am trying to configure a VPN server completely using Powershell. I have completed everything except the last step: Granting a local user account Dial-In / Network Access Permissions so that this ...
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How can I use shared functions in a remote Powershell session?
I have some Powershell scripts for setting up IIS web applications, message queues, etc.
They use a set of shared function libraries we've created - so each script starts with the line
. .\common....
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One-To-Many Powershell Scripts
I'm trying to create a script to run as a scheduled task, which will run against multiple servers and retrieve some information.
To start with, I populate the list of servers by querying AD for all ...
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Automating help desk tasks using a Powershell web interface
I'm looking into implementing Powershell in a help desk environment to automate routine tasks like unlocking user accounts, resetting passwords, etc.
The help desk will be supporting different ...
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How to install remote software NOT on a domain?
I have a situation where some software (that I wrote) is going to be deployed on 60 laptops for an event. The laptops are all running windows 7, but there is no domain controller, and they will all ...
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WinRM will not connect to remote computer in my Domain
I am trying to run a script that installs a program remotely for a user in my domain. I can run the script fine on my own computer but when I run the script for a different computer in the domain I ...
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Remote Powershell not working but test-wsman does
I need to script some routine task to execute remotly from a serverA to many hosts but a couple of them fail to execute the script.
If i execute this:
$cred = Get-Credential myUser
Invoke-Command -...
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Why some servers fail when execute "Get-Service"?
I have several servers connected in VPN to my host server. All run windows 7.
I'm running in loop Get-Service -ComputerName $server -Name Spooler for each server. For some reason some of them return ...
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How do I stop service on remote server, that's not connected to a domain, using a non admin user via PowerShell
I've got the start of the script to achieve this:
$SecurePassword = ConvertTo-SecureString –String $Password –AsPlainText -Force
$Credential = New-Object -TypeName System.Management.Automation....
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remote Powershell script Scheduled task
I am having trouble running a Powershell script as a scheduled task. The script remotely logs into two Hyper-V hosts, queries the replication status and emails the result back to me.
The script works ...
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Get OS architecture remotely via PowerShell
Does anybody know how to grab OS architecture remotely from multiple Windows hosts via PowerShell?
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Powershell authentication over VLAN
Problem
I'd like to enable remote powershell scripting for all workstation hosts on a VLAN.
There's no Active Directory or Directory services whatsoever. So HOST A on subnet
192.168.1.x would like ...
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Enable-PSRemoting: Is there security threats?
I have two production servers (Windows Server 2008, Terminal Servers) and I would like to enable PowerShell remoting commands on those servers. Is there a security threat one should consider before ...
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Manage a DC remotely via powershell on a computer not joined to the domain
What should be done? Is it possible?
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Implementing Powershell .20 (WinRM Invoke-Item) in the secure Datacenter environment
How do you secure your Windows domain environment while still enabling the Powershell 2.0 remoting capabilities (WinRM invoke-item) ?
Because at the moment my company datacenter would like to ...
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Manage client workstations with Remote Powershell via SSL
I am looking for a solution to remotely manage around 100 workstations.
I will be connecting to these systems to complete several local system tasks. (3rd party updates, security auditing, incident ...
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Powershell - Query remote Local Security Policy?
I am looking to remotely query a list of servers, to ensure they are "set up" correctly
One of the things I want to check is the Local Security Policy -> User Rights Assignment ->Deny Log on through ...
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powershell v2 remoting - How do you enable unecrypted traffic
I'm writing a powershell v2 script that I'd like to run against a remote server. When I run it, I get the error :
Connecting to remote server failed
with the following error message : The
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WinRM will not connect to remote machine
I had posted a question but it hasn't been answered and there has been no activity on it lately so I'm reposting. Sorry if thats the incorrect way of doing things but I have been struggling to get ...
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Powershell command works in local PS prompt, but not in a remote PS prompt
I am just beginning to use PS Remoting to administer servers but have run into a snag. When I am at the local server command line, I can run a command like
Get-DfsReplicationGroup
and the prompt ...
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Using remote's computer proxy when Powershell remoting to this computer
I'm trying to do the following tasks:
Connect to a remote computer through Powershell ISE 4
Then run a ps1 script in that computer, that installs chocolatey and update other software
This machine is ...
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Enter-PSSession: receiving access denied on non domain remote server
I am struggling to open a remote PS session on a remote server (Windows Server 2022 Standard). The remote server is not part of a domain.
When running the command
Enter-PSSession -ComputerName ...
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Can I run remote PowerShell/Cmd command with RDP credential, without Remote PS enabled?
I am in a "funny" situation where I have RDP credentials of about 200 servers, but none of them have Remote Powershell enabled.
I need a simple task: restart them all. But all I have is RDP (...
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PowerShell - Invoke-WmiMethod : Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))
I have 2 workgroup computers. I want to setup powershell-remoting between these two computers. The OS on both the computer is windows 1809.
Powershell remoting is enabled in one of the computer. ...
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My Powershell Script of Adding Domain Users to Remote Machine is Failing with Access Denied
I have the following script:
Param(
[String[]] $targetMachines,
[String] $targetMachineListFile,
[String] $group,
[String] $domain,
[String] $user
)
if (-not ($targetMachines))
{
...
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Notes 6: Anyway to access the Lotus Notes server console via Telnet/SSH/WMI/Powershell?
I'm trying to automate a lot of tasks at my new company using Powershell. So far, I've had a lot of success with their server and network monitoring, but one thing that alludes me is whether they is ...
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Is it possible to configure a machine wide WinRM client default authentication?
WinRM is the protocol used by Windows Machine when running remote commands, WinRM supports several authentication schemes.
Is there a machine wide setting to control the default authentication ...
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Remote power shell through load balancer
I want to connect to exchange server via remote Powershell. When I connect directly with server URL I am able to create the session. But in the production I have many instances of exchange server, So ...
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Why is New-PSSession working? Where do the ApplicationName and ConfigurationName parameters map to?
I know this is probably a bit unusual for a StackExchange question... but my PowerShell command is working and I can't figure out why!
The below command executes fine and I can connect to the server ...
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Local PC cannot connect to new Azure VM just created. Error-....server name cannot be resolved
Standard disclaimer, very new with powershell and Azure remote machines. Here is my powershell script. It is failing on this command:
$setupSession = New-PSSession -ComputerName $pip -Port 5986 -...
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Running apps on remote machine using current user credentials
I'm using enter-pssession to connect to a remote machine via Powershell. I then try to run an application via this connection on the remote machine. However, when I do this, it believes the user is ...
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Error in getting powershell remote session through ssh-enabled PowerShell
I am trying to login to windows 2008 server "C" from my machine "A". There is machine in between "B" serving as jumpbox running windows server 2008 and running "SSH-Enabled PowerShell Access for ...
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