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Let's talk about the company that we're going to represent, so Globomantics.

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We're going to all be the IT administrators for Globomantics.

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Our core daily task is to execute PowerShell scripts.

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These are often time‑consuming tasks.

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We have to copy them to each server, and then we have to execute them locally,

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so there has to be a better way.

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So we simply need a process to execute these effectively,

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remotely on other machines without having to go through that

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same process again and again and again.

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Now to help us do this, in my lab environment that represents Globomantics,

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I have an Active Directory server, a file server,

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an administration workstation that's running Windows 10,

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and then, of course, an administration workstation that's running Linux,

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and we're using Ubuntu Linux for this.

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And the idea behind this is to represent a cross‑section of all of the servers

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in our infrastructure that we would have at Globomantics.

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So what do you need in order to do this?

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Well, first off, you need that Globomantics lab setup or something similar.

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Maybe your production environment is the same,

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or maybe you have a test environment.

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You need to have installed PowerShell 7, so at least

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we have that in those environments,

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then installed a PowerShell editor, and there the two that I like to pick

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are Visual Studio Code or the new Windows Terminal.

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Either of those are fine.

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And then of course,

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you'll need connection details for the remote machines themselves,

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so things like the IP address or the name, and then, of course, the credentials that you wish to connect to.