Should I expect powershell + winrm to work between machines which are
in different domains, and that dont have a trust relationship?

thanks,
Michael Lewis

According to the help file, Windows PowerShell remoting is available even
when the local
computer is not in a domain (workgroup). I haven't test it against remote
untrusted domains so I can't tell for sure,
it might work if all proper communications are available to the target (ports,
firewalls, etc).
The down side is you have to make modifications to the remote machines you're
going to query.

Type 'help about_remoting' to get more information.





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> Should I expect powershell + winrm to work between machines which are
> in different domains, and that dont have a trust relationship?
>
> thanks,
> Michael Lewis

MichaelL wrote:

> Should I expect powershell + winrm to work between machines which are
> in different domains, and that dont have a trust relationship?

Check out 'winrm help auth'. There's a ton of stuff there. I think the answer
is definitely yes based simply[1] on the fact that WinRM/WS-MGMT/CIM stuff uses
HTTP(S) as the transport. This is not a Microsoft technology by any means, this
is very much cross-platform. Check the DMTF[2] for more details on that.
Obviously, requiring AD credentials would break that.

[1]: I don't mean to imply that WinRM is simple. I'm finding it kinda awkward,
actually. Look for a post about that on the Windows Server blog
(http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/) soon, I sent them feedback on this
topic which they promised would be addressed soon.
[2]: http://www.dmtf.org/standards/wsman

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