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Now,

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an interesting use case that we often find when working with

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PowerShell is the ability to move files,

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and objects, and content around.

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Now copying files can be done either manually or you can do script

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execution and you can use a network share for example.

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So you know, maybe we're using the Active Directory server share,

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have some files in there, and we need to copy them from one place to another.

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We also can use script execution for remote PowerShell as well.

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So we can either manually copy files, write PowerShell to copy files,

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or what would be helpful is if I need to copy,

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let's say,

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I want to copy a series of PowerShell script files to the

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remote server to execute them and do that every time we

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connect to make sure they're updated, then,

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of course,

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I don't want to be manually having to copy six files over to here

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because what happens if you are in a secure environment and don't

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actually have access to UNC or shared paths.

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To achieve this, we can use the Copy‑Item command.

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This will allow us to copy an item from one location to another.

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Now the cmdlet doesn't cut or delete the items, it literally just copies.

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You're able to copy and rename items as part of the same command.

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You can use it locally or remotely, and to do it remotely,

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we can utilize ‑ToSession to work within the construct of remote computers.

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So what does this look like?

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Well, let's have a look.

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So, I have a location and a destination.

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So my location is on my Active Directory server,

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I have a Files share, and then my destination is I wish to store

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them locally in a new folder called C:\Files.

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We can use Copy‑Item, so Path, which would be the location,

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\* because I want to move everything, and then I have the Destination option,

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which lets me just say dump them over there.

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So I can run this on my local machine.

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So I could go into my admin workstation,

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do the same process, and say run that command,

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and it will copy the files from the network share

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into that folder on my machine.

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Now if you want to copy the files to a remote computer

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that you may not have UNC access to, then,

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of course, we can create a session first.

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So we're going to use New‑PSSession,

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which is the Active Directory server at this point.

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I'm going to say Copy‑Item with a Path of the files to get to,

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set the Destination,

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and then you'll see at the end there we use ToSession and we tell it to

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send this command down the session that we created.

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So this means I can copy files from one machine through an existing

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PowerShell session and have them pop out on the other machine without

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actually having to have UNC or shared network access.

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So what's the use case for using this?

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Well, Globomantics is a highly secure environment,

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so for example, there's no network copying to specific servers.

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Maybe there'll be specific port restrictions as well.

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The core requirement is to copy custom PowerShell

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scripts to the remote computers.

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So that's the objective here, we want to be able to say,

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well those three member servers, we can't really copy things to them,

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but I want to somehow get those files to it.

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And then, of course,

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the requirement is for me as an admin to copy things like

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administration programs to the remote computers.

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So maybe we're trying to copy pieces that are part of,

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for example, Sysinternals, tools that we wish to utilize remotely.

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We can't get them to the machine, so we want to use PowerShell to be able to push them over there.