PowerShell commands can be executed on a remote systems by using PowerShell-Remoting. By default, PowerShell remoting is disabled on clients operating systems.
We can either enable PowerShell remoting by executing the command “Enable-PSRemoting -Force” under administrative context. This can be either done locally on each systems by executing the commands or remotely via a group policy or through SCCM.
But if we have administrative access to a system, we can execute PowerShell commands remotely by means of PSEXEC.EXE (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/psexec)
PSEXEC shell does not work well (interactively) with PowerShell as it works with cmd commands.
Interactive Powershell prompt with PSExec
In windows 10, the interactive part is much better.
Enabling PowerShell Remoting using PSEXEC
#cmd.exe in the administrative context
#navigate to the sysinternals tools folder or add the folder to the PATH
#executing the below command would take us to the powershell prompt of the remote system
psexec.exe \\<computerName powershell.exe
#run the below command to enable PS Remoting or any commands as we wish
Enable-PSRemoting -ForceExecute multiple Powershell commands with PSExec
So, rather than going with interactive way, we can also issue a single command to do the same task
#navigate to the sysinternals suite folder, to directly execute from the prompt, add the folder to the PATH
psexec.exe \\<computerName> powershell.exe -command "& {Enable-PSRemoting -Force}"Execute multiple Powershell commands with PSExec
We can also execute multiple commands as a single statement
#navigate to the sysinternals suite folder, to directly execute from the prompt, add the folder to the PATH
psexec.exe \\<computerName> powershell.exe -command "& {Get-Process; Get-service; $num1 = 2; $num2 = 1; $num1 + $num2}"Also, please have a look at my other post about PSEXEC
Hope you liked this article and thank you for reading
Recent Comments