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Creating JEA session configurations

Creating JEA session configurations

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Creating JEA session configurations

- [Instructor] We've taken the first few steps of implementing JEA in our active directory domain. First, we made a plan, and created active directory security groups, then we created a role capabilities file that defined the things that the average text support technician needs to do on our server. Now it's time to connect the dots. We need a configuration file on the endpoint, the target server being managed, that can identify the user requesting a remote session, and connect them with the correct role capabilities file. Creating that starting point is similar to creating the role capabilities file. There is a commandlet for New-PSSessionConfigurationFile, and here we need to go ahead and specify that the session type is RestrictedRemoteServer, because that's what we're trying to set up. A server that can be managed remotely, but with some very tight restrictions. And then we need to give the path of the session configuration file that we're about to create. I'm going to go ahead…

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