A. Vista and Server 2008 support the WS-Management and Windows Remote Shell. To enable connectivity to a machine, run the Winrm Quickconfig command. For example,
C:\>winrm quickconfig
WinRM is not set up to allow remote access to this machine for management.
The following changes must be made:
Create a WinRM listener on HTTP://* to accept WS-Man requests to any IP on this
machine.
Enable the WinRM firewall exception.
Make these changes [y/n]?
When you choose “y,” the following will occur:
WinRM has been updated for remote management.
Created a WinRM listener on HTTP://* to accept WS-Man requests to any IP on this machine.
WinRM firewall exception enabled.
On the client, use the Winrs command with the -r switch to identify the remote system, then the remote command you want to run. For example,
winrs -r:savdaldc01 hostname
savdaldc01
hostname
savdalwks10
Notice that my local hostname is savdalwk10, but when I run the same command to the remote savdaldc01, the hostname response is the correct remote name.
do both client and server machines have to be running vista / server2008?
It would be nice if the remote machine had to be server2008, but the local machine could be XP.
Otherwise this it isn't possible to roll out applications which use this feature for many years to come.
That is a cool tool that microsoft has added to its suite of IT systems management software.
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