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So the next question is, why would you use PowerShell remoting?

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Well, it's important to understand the benefits of PowerShell remoting.

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The first one of these is that we get to execute single or

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multiple commands against remote machines.

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So we can simply say execute this single command, so, for example,

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Get‑ComputerInfo, or we can say Get‑ComputerInfo,

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do some interrogation,

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update a registry entry, and then return some results back.

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So we can run single or multiple via a single connection.

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It also allows execution of either static commands, so I mentioned one earlier,

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Get‑ComputerInfo, which will basically list me computer details. If you

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were to run that on your Windows device right now, it would come back

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with memory, storage, processor, name, etc.

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I can run that command, which is a general PowerShell cmdlet, or I can

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tell it to execute a custom script that I've written.

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So maybe I took some of the regular commands, batched them altogether.

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So, for example,

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let's say I wanted to run a report every single week on

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certain machines' disk space, for example,

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I could run the static commands inside a PowerShell script and then

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make it render out a nice HTML report, for example.

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So instead of executing the static command,

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I execute my script, which does all of that.

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And, of course, our last benefit here is that we can execute

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commands against multiple machines simultaneously.

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So the idea here with PowerShell remoting is that I can say I want to

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get, so I'll go back to our example of Get‑ComputerInfo,

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I want to run that against my entire forest estate.

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So let's say I have 100 servers,

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I could in reality run Get‑ComputerInfo 100 times manually by

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hopping onto each server, that's 100 connections, or I could simply

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use PowerShell remoting and blast that out to a list of 100, and

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then manage the outputs of them.

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So really powerful benefits that come from being able to do PowerShell remoting when you're managing a server estate.