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Miriam C. Wiesner
Miriam C. Wiesner
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Miriam C. Wiesner

Miriam C. Wiesner is a senior security researcher at Microsoft, with over 15 years of experience in IT and IT security. She has held various positions, including administrator/system engineer, software developer, premier field engineer, program manager, security consultant, and pentester. She is also a renowned creator of open source tools based in PowerShell, including EventList and JEAnalyzer. She has been invited multiple times to present the research behind her tools at many international conferences, such as Black Hat (the US, Europe, and Asia), PSConfEU, and MITRE ATT&CK workshop. Outside of work, Miriam is a dedicated wife and mother, residing with her family near Nuremberg, Germany.
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Executing commands using PowerShell remoting

Sometimes, you may want to run a command remotely but have not configured PSRemoting. Some cmdlets provide built-in remoting technologies that can be leveraged.

All commands that offer a built-in remoting technology have one thing in common: typically, they all have a parameter called -ComputerName to specify the remote endpoint.

To get a list of locally available commands that have the option to run tasks remotely, use the Get-Command -CommandType Cmdlet -ParameterName ComputerName command:

> Get-Command -ParameterName ComputerName
CommandType  Name               Version    Source
-----------  ----               -------    ------
Cmdlet       Connect-PSSession  3.0...
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Miriam C. Wiesner

Miriam C. Wiesner is a senior security researcher at Microsoft, with over 15 years of experience in IT and IT security. She has held various positions, including administrator/system engineer, software developer, premier field engineer, program manager, security consultant, and pentester. She is also a renowned creator of open source tools based in PowerShell, including EventList and JEAnalyzer. She has been invited multiple times to present the research behind her tools at many international conferences, such as Black Hat (the US, Europe, and Asia), PSConfEU, and MITRE ATT&CK workshop. Outside of work, Miriam is a dedicated wife and mother, residing with her family near Nuremberg, Germany.
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