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So another approach is to actually want to execute some kind of script.

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So instead of using static commands such as Get‑ComputerInfo or hostname,

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maybe we want to execute a script into a specific set of machines such as

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our Active Directory server and our member servers.

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So I'm going to press the Start button, and type the run

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command, and then execute the run.

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And then I'm going to use my IP address of the AD server, so 10.0.0.5.

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Just click OK, and this will launch into a series of

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shared folders on that machine.

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I'm going to go into my Scripts folder, and in here, I

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have a series of PowerShell scripts.

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What I'm going to do is actually just go and right‑click here on

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Report, and I'm just going to copy that, and then I'm going to browse

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to my C: drive here, and I'll just go into my Code folder, and I'll

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just paste that PowerShell file.

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So this is a Report PowerShell script, which we'll look at in a second,

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but I just wanted to copy it locally so we could try and execute this

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against another machine, so I'm going to minimize now.

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Now what we can do is take the same command that we

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had previously. And, for example, where we have this section here,

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which is hostname,

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I'm now deleting it, ‑ScriptBlock, etc, we can actually change that to be

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‑FilePath and then point it to the file path that we want to use.

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So a specific report, PS1 file or whatever the script may be.

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Now, what I want to do here is not actually execute it

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against all of the machines for now.

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So what we'll do is a 10.0.0.5, so just against the Active Directory

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server. And then in my file path, I could put the file path.

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So, if we go back to my run option here,

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you can see it's in my C:\Code directory.

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So I minimize here. I'm going to say

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"C:\Code\Report.ps1", and I have my kind of path.

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Now, what we can do here is I can execute this here. Now you'll notice it

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comes back and says the value of FilePath needs to have a .ps1 extension, and

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that's okay, so let's just delete these extra bits.

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This is where our syntax differs between the different types of things.

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So, now I've changed it, Invoke‑Command, this single machine

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with the credentials we have in that PS1 file.

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So I'm now executing it.

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It comes back and says, oh, hold on a minute. A file already

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exists, and that's okay because this report file,

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which we'll look at in a second, is trying to generate a specific log.

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So let me just click the Start button again,

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go to my Run command. This time, we'll actually go through and

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use that specific path, \\10.0.0.5\Devices, and we'll open

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that, and you'll see, sure enough, there's a text file.

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So I'm actually going to delete this, and we'll leave this window

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open and go back to my PowerShell window, and then we'll rerun that

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same command like so, and sure enough, it now says it's created a specific file.

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So if we go back to my Devices folder, you'll see there's a Report file.

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If I click Open,

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we'll just maximize this. You'll see it gives me some

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information around the Windows desktop,

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the manufacturer, and then some details about the operating system.

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So, how does it do that?

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Well,

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let's close this down, and this time, we'll go and open

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that specific script file that we created.

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So I'm going to right‑click here, and I'm going to say

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Open with Code, which is Visual Studio Code. And sure

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enough, my Report file is now open.

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This is my PowerShell script. So you can see it has a location set

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of where we wish to save, and then I'm using some variable

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information, so this is a standard PowerShell command, so env, so

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$env is for current environment.

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And then I'm using a property called COMPUTERNAME. I'm then

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using a default PowerShell cmdlet called Get‑CimInstance to get

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information about the desktop, about the actual manufacturer,

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operating system information.

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And then, if we go to the last bit here,

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I'm saying go to this location and basically create a report log file

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that has the populated variable information broken down by these kind

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of topic areas, so desktop details, manufacturer details,

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operating system details.

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So fairly straightforward.

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So, let's go back and see how we can run that against

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multiple machines instead of just the one.

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So let me clear my section.

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Now, of course, if we go back to my command,

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you can see that I've got my PowerShell script to run locally.

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I've got my $creds. And all I want to do here is

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just change this to be $computers.

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Before we execute, I'm going to go back to my Devices directory, and I'm

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actually just going to delete the file because I don't want to have an

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error again. Click back here, and then what we'll do is go right to the

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end here and just execute. Now this is going to go ahead and try and run

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them. Now, of course, well, we can see we've got some errors to do with

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access denied.

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So what's happening here is it's trying ‑‑‑ I'm going to scroll all the way

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up. I'm going to keep scrolling back to the top here.

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It's trying to write. You can see access to the path it says is denied,

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so it's definitely connecting to the other machines, so TRAININGSRV02, which is

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one of my member servers, and it's trying to write the value to it, and then

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it's failing with some various permission issues.

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So if we just go back here to my folder,

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my Devices, sure enough, it only created the very first one.

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So why does it do that?

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Well,

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it's because it's to do with permissions when it's been executed from a remote machine.