Restart a remote Windows computer using PowerShell cmdlets Restart-Computer, Invoke-CimMethod or shutdown.exe, PSExec.exe, RunDLL32.exe, Taskkill.exe.

On the remote computer, run Enable-PSRemoting-Force. This command starts the WinRM service, sets it to auto-start and creates a firewall rule to allow WinRM connections without confirmation. 2. Create ...

Test-Connection brings it up a notch by folding that functionality into a PS cmdlet, while adding some new tricks–such as being able to designate a source computer that’s different from the ...

The remote computer refused the network connection: The remote computer is not reachable. (100% loss) : All attempts to connect failed. Run psping on multiple computers to test their ability to ...

When you're creating automation scripts to discover, add, update or remove records from a remote SQL database, you need to ensure your script can successfully connect to the database. One way to ...

There are various PowerShell tutorials out there, but if they touch on remote access at all they do tend to assume that every computer for miles is not only running Windows, but also joined into a ...