When you run a native console command via PowerShell remoting, special characters like German Umlauts will be damaged because remoting uses a rather limited encoding.
$command = { systeminfo.exe /FO CSV | ConvertFrom-Csv } Invoke-Command -ScriptBlock $command -ComputerName Server01
To correct this, you can run the native console command inside a background job on the remote machine. When you do this, the command is executed by a regular PowerShell, and encoding is corrected:
$command = { systeminfo.exe /FO CSV | ConvertFrom-Csv } $remotecode = { param($Code) $job = Start-Job ([ScriptBlock]::Create($Code)) -Name Job1 $null = Wait-Job $job Receive-Job -Name Job1 Remove-Job -Name Job1 } Invoke-Command -ComputerName Server01 -ScriptBlock $remotecode -ArgumentList $command
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