PowerShell Master Class lesson one passes 300,000 views. THANK YOU!

Another nice milestone 🎉. Lesson one of the PowerShell Master Class hit 300,000 views! I keep this updated with recent new lessons around version 7, debugging, secrets and more.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nFq_hR7FcMYg32xsSAObuq8

https://github.com/johnthebrit/PowerShellMC

PowerShell is cross-platform and such a useful tool to have in your belt.

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How do you guys use PowerShell remoting ?

I have been working with PowerShell for more than 10 years. When it became open sourced and cross platform, I started to manage linux (and at home my macOs ) with PowerShell.

I was wondering how the devops community is using PowerShell remoting for remote management of machines.

If so, I think it can be interesting to discuss how and for what type of machines (and how many?) this is done. To keep things clear and short, maybe each can include the following data:

\- How many servers
\- Which type of machine (Windows / Linux / MacOs?)
\- Which protocol is used (OpenSSH / WinRM over HTTPS etc..)


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I'll go first:

\- Servers: 3000
\- Mostly Windows
\- WinRM over HTTP at first, then over HTTPS.

Details:

I have been managing mostly Windows machines (around 3000) with raw Powershell remoting. We went and got a licence of Ansible Tower, and this migrated on that platform for our configuration management system.

We use WinRM over HTTPS, as our machines are not always in our main active directory. Ansible is quite cool, but for Windows Management it still uses classical WinRM, and actually works great.

Since I was evaluating OpenSSH as an alternative (since Powershell supports that now) I actually took A LOT of notes. regarding POwerShell in general. I kept having the quesiton: Is PowerShell remoting actually secure ? (And a LOT of people would say it is not - for some obscure reason...)

I have summarized my notes and answer most of the general questions (how to configure, how does it work, is it secure etc....) in the following video -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg\_9r0PHnnM








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