Managing Server Core with PowerShell remoting

Now we move on to the most powerful way that we can interact with our remote and headless servers, PowerShell. If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times – PowerShell has the capability to change anything in the operating system; it's just a matter of figuring out the right commands and cmdlets to use. By establishing a remote PowerShell connection to a server, you can manipulate any facet of that machine right from the pretty blue window that is running on your local computer. In this recipe, we will use PowerShell from our Windows 10 client computer.

Getting ready

As we continue to figure out how to remotely manage our new CORE01 server, we will now be using PowerShell from our Windows 10 client computer to see what we can and cannot accomplish with these tools.

How to do it…

Since we've just been working with the Server Manager on Windows 10, let's try to launch a remote PowerShell...