Enabling PowerShell V.2 Remotely

Setting up the brand new PowerShell v.2 remotely in a domain environment is easy: simply run
Set-WSManQuickConfig

As long as you have proper privileges to run this command, it does everything automatically: it runs the WinRM service, sets up a PowerShell listener and a firewall exception. To play with remotely, run this on every computer you want to connect to as it is required on both ends. Then, run any command remotely like this:

You should note that remote by default requires Kerberos authentication, so it will only work in a domain environment. You learn how to configure WSMan appropriately to make it work in simple peer-to-peer environments, in another tip.

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