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During installing updates I noticed 'PowerShell 2.0 and WinRM' update. Upon reading some Microsoft & Wikipedia pages I read that it is remote management system that runs on SOAP and that it is useful for remote technical support.

I become interested as I provide remote "Home Technical Support".

Therefore:

  1. What is WinRM? Is it slightly similar to SSH or not?
  2. For what exactly may I use it?
  3. Are there any Linux clients? I read something that Novell is preparing one but information may be out of date.
  4. What is Windows 7 client?
Maja Piechotka
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WinRM is equivalent to the RPC calls used for remote administration and process execution, but it's based on the Web Services for Management (WS-Management) standards

You can use it to retrieve information about a remote computer, or execute processes remotely.

NO idea about Linux clients, but Windows 7 has a client, meaning an application that can access a WinRM server running on a computer.

You'll find more information in this blog article: What is WinRM?

Snark
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