Enabling PowerShell remoting

There are different ways to enable PSRemoting for your system(s). If you only work with a few machines in your lab, you might want to enable it manually. But as soon as you want to enable PSRemoting in a big environment, you might want to enable and configure PSRemoting centrally. In this section, we will have a look at both methods. The following table provides an overview of which method takes which configuration actions:

Table 3.2 – Enabling PSRemoting – different methods

Please note that the Enable-PSRemoting method is a subpart of the manual configuration; to configure HTTP and HTTPS listeners, additional steps must be taken. Let’s explore what is needed to manually configure PSRemoting, which could be useful in a test scenario, for example.

Enabling PowerShell remoting manually

If you want to enable PSRemoting on a single machine, this can be done manually by using the Enable-PSRemoting command...