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So let's go back into our Globomantics environment.

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We'll look at how we copy files to remote computers.

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We'll first create the remote PowerShell sessions that are required.

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Then, we'll execute the PowerShell scripts that are

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stored in that network share.

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And then we'll lastly look at how we copy files

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directly through that remote session.

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So now that we've been able to connect to the multiple machines and execute

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PowerShell scripts, what we want to do now is look at how we can get things

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to or files or objects copied to other machines.

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Now the first thing I want to do is obviously just remind us of how

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we make connections across to other locations.

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So the first thing I want to do is create a specific

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session to one of the remote machines.

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So I'm going to say New‑PSSession, and then, of course, if

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we go through our ‑ComputerName option, what we'll do is we'll use 10.0.0.10,

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which is one of our main machines, and we'll just click Enter.

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And, of course, remember if we get this error, we do need to make

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sure that our ‑Credential object is specified as $creds, and then

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that gives us our connection.

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So if I click $session, you can see I have a remote session that's available.

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Now, if you look carefully at the command,

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you remember that we created, obviously, a new

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PowerShell session using ‑Credential.

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Now, if we clear this, well, before we clear that,

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tell you what,

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let's just remove the PSSession that we created, and we'll

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say, Id of 69, and we'll get rid of that.

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Let's go back and look at how we can create that new PowerShell

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session and if we can pass Credssp to it because remember, we want to

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be able to execute the command on the other side, and we want to get

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past any of the security issues.

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So I'm going to say Credssp, so this is now going to

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create me my session. And sure enough,

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I've now got my session opened to that machine.

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So once we have that, we can then obviously invoke or

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execute commands on the other machine.

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So let's go back to our folder structure of scripts that we

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have. We originally looked at the Report option,

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but what about if I wanted to enable or perform a backup?

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So let me just right‑click on one of these files, and we'll

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say Open with Code. We'll say Open, so we can see. Now in the

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Install‑Backup PowerShell script,

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I want to install Windows‑Server‑Backup, and then

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force a restart on that computer.

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So this is utilizing PowerShell. Now what we can do is

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we could capture this command here,

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so I'm going to say Copy. We now have the session, so let's just

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invoke that command that we had in the PowerShell.

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Now, of course, we can reuse this existing session.

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So instead of saying ‑ComputerName, I can say ‑Session.

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Now, of course, when we utilize the session,

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we don't need to pass any credentials or anything like that because that was

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created as part of the initial session. We can then do ‑ScriptBlock, and I can

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paste my install backup, and I can press Enter.

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Now this has now gone ahead, and trying to execute that over there. It

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already says success because I've already run this in the past,

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so we didn't have to wait for it to run,

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but that command installs Windows‑Server‑Backup.

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So let's go back to my Visual Studio Code. My next command would be to restart,

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which I don't want to restart, so we can imagine that that's been done.

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So let's then go back to my Scripts directory, and we'll choose Backup,

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and we'll say Open with Code, and we'll open this again.

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And now this one's a little bit different.

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This one is going to retrieve the name of the computer, then set the path.

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Notice we're using the Active Directory server and a folder called Backup.

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So let me go into here and find that directory, so Backup, so

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there's my empty folder. And what it's going to do is go ahead

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and create a directory for this path,

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which will be basically the name of the machine in there.

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And then it will go ahead and create the policy, backing up the C:

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drive, and then storing that as a backup option.

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So, the use case here is that we want to run this script on a regular basis.

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So let's go back into here.

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And what we'll do is we can say Invoke‑Command, and I'm going to get

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rid of my ‑ScriptBlock here because we're going to use the ‑FilePath

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one. I need to put my ‑FilePath option. And then in the ‑FilePath, we

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can get the UNC path to that script.

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So let's go back to my Scripts one, and what we'll do here is say Backup.

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I'm going to select the UNC path, and then go here and paste

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that in, and then I can execute that command.

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Now this will go ahead. Notice, it's created my

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directory called TRAININGSRV01VM.

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So let's go back to my folder structure. We'll go back to 10.0.0.5 Backup.

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And sure enough, that folder is created. And if I waited and watched it,

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it would then start to load values into there.

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So this is now going to perform a backup of this machine

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directly into the Active Directory server.

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Now you might have to give it a few minutes to wait, but there you go.

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It just appeared, WindowsImageBackup,

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and it will continue to run as we need it to, so a fairly painless process.