Remoting and Just Enough Administration

This chapter will show you how to configure and use remoting with PowerShell Core to securely connect to Windows and Linux systems on a large scale. We will also look at Just Enough Administration (JEA), a feature of Windows PowerShell that we can use with PowerShell Core, as well.

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Enabling PowerShell remoting on Windows
• Enabling PowerShell remoting on Linux
• Configuring PowerShell remoting
• Securely connecting to remote endpoints
• Remotely retrieving data
• Remote script debugging
• Creating a JEA role
• Creating JEA session configuration
• Connecting to endpoints using different session configuration
• Using the Common Information Model (CIM)
• Using PowerShell Direct and PowerShell Core