Summary

After reading this chapter, you should be familiar with how to use PowerShell remotely, using PSRemoting. You learned what options exist in PowerShell to establish remote connections, which enables you to not only manage Windows machines but also other operating systems, such as macOS and Linux.

You also learned what endpoints are and can create basic custom endpoints. You will strengthen this ability later in Chapter 10, Language Modes and Just Enough Administration (JEA), but you already know the basics.

Then, you learned a lot about authentication protocols that can be used and even more about security considerations when working with those protocols. You should also be aware of how easily an adversary can obtain decrypted credentials if a weak authentication protocol is used.

You should now be able to configure PSRemoting manually and centrally, which helps you set up your initial PSRemoting configuration in your production environment.

Last but not least, you...