Configure PowerShell Remoting

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Configure PowerShell Remoting

This hands-on lab walks through the process of configuring and using PowerShell remoting, including interactive, persistent, non-presistent, and one-to-many remoting.

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Lab Info

Level

Intermediate

Last updated

Sep 23, 2025

Duration

30m

Challenge

Verify Remote Management Is Enabled

Verify remote management is enabled, and confirm Windows Defender Firewall is configured to allow remote management on BRADC1 and BRADC2.
Challenge

Demonstrate PowerShell Remoting
1. Connect to BRAWKS1 using the standard_user account
2. Demonstrate PowerShell remoting, including:
  
  Use interactive remoting to connect to BRADC1 and install the PSWindowsUpdate module from the PowerShell Gallery
  
  Use non-persistent remoting to connect to BRADC1 and verify the PSWindowsUpdate module is installed
  
  Create a persistent remoting session on BRADC1, and use the peristent session to save a new variable and retrieve the variable in two separate commands
  
  Use one-to-many remoting to configure DNS forwarders to 168.63.129.16 on both BRADC1 and BRADC2 using one PowerShell remoting command
Challenge

Connect to the Virtual Machines
1. Use Remote Desktop to connect to BRAWKS1 using the public IP address and the username and password from the lab details.
2. Use Remote Desktop to connect to BRADC1 and BRADC2 using the public IP addresses and the username and the password from the lab details.
PLEASE NOTE

The username used to connect to BRAWKS1 is different from the username used to connect to BRADC1 and BRADC2.

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