WinRM - Windows remote management

[ptrex]

WinRM - Windows remote management

Very few people know or use the new features of Windows 2003, like for instance the WinRM objects.

WinRM ( windows remote management) is the Microsoft implementation of WS-Management protocol built in the operating system. WinRM first shipped in Windows Server 2003 R2 and enhanced in Windows Vista. WS-Management is a DMTF standard

In short : WinRM is a standard SOAP based firewall friendly protocol that allows hardware and operating systems from different vendors to interoperate. The main goal of this standard is to make management devices and systems easier in a heterogeneous systems.

When you are interested in using it. Your XP / Vista and Server should be configured accordingly.

For more information look here WinRM getting started

I think Vista is preconfigured having all COM objects available. But for XP you need download and install the addons.

Download WinRM

This is how the syntax works.

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$objWsman = ObjCreate("Wsman.Automation")
$objSession = $objWsman.CreateSession()
$strResource = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/wbem/wsman/1/" _
        & "wmi/root/cimv2/Win32_Service?Name=Winmgmt"
$strResponse = $objSession.Get($strResource)

; ConsoleWrite($strResponse & @LF); Or use XML Transform

DisplayOutput($strResponse)

Func DisplayOutput($strWinRMXml)
    $xmlFile = ObjCreate("MSXml2.DOMdocument.3.0")
    $xslFile = ObjCreate("MSXml2.DOMdocument.3.0")
    $xmlFile.LoadXml($strWinRMXml)
    $xslFile.Load("WsmTxt.xsl")
    ConsoleWrite ($xmlFile.TransformNode($xslFile))
EndFunc

; ---------------------------------------------------------------
$Wsman = ObjCreate("Wsman.Automation")
$xmlFile = ObjCreate( "MSxml.DOMDocument")
$xslFile = ObjCreate( "MSXml.DOMDocument" )

$Session = $Wsman.CreateSession
$Response = $Session.Get("http://schemas.microsoft.com/wbem/wsman/" _
    & "1/wmi/root/cimv2/Win32_Service?Name=Spooler")

$xmlFile.LoadXml($Response)
;$xmlFile.Save( "c:\RawOutput.xml")
$xslFile.Load( "WsmTxt.xsl" )

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Enjoy !!

regards

ptrex

Edited September 28, 2008 by ptrex

[arcker]

excellent !

i've tried WinRM when it becomes available for WinXP / Win2K3

it's really powerful because it can have more the one listener, each doing something.

the best thing is the abaility to control all servers from one console.

I'll try to test your script but i've stopped using WinRM because of it's performance ... really poor ... like powershell.

[ptrex]

@arcker

Good to hear you have been playing around with this as well.

If you have code to share let us know.

Regards,

ptrex