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What is remoting?

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What is remoting?

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- [Instructor] So remoting is going to allow you to run the PowerShell commands locally on one box, but it's going to send those commands off to other machines as if you were sitting physically at their console, or RDP'd into those machines using a remote desktop protocol and running the commands locally. So one of the requirements of this is you're going to need at least PowerShell 2.0 or higher. As of right now, PowerShell is up to, I believe, version five. So the annoying thing with older versions of Windows and older versions of PowerShell, is you're going to have to turn on remoting on those boxes. So what we're going to have to do is, to turn remoting on on Windows 2008 R2 and below, we're going to have to RDP in the machine and actually turn on remoting. We can turn on through root policy. So you want to turn on across the entire domain. For easy to do it, through root policy. If you don't want to do it on the entire domain, then you're going to have to RDP into all of those…

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