re: Podcast Discussing WSMAN 1/14/2008

tbonejanson — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:11:29 GMT

Jeffrey,

Two of the questions I can't seem to get an answers on, including from my on-site Msft TAM of all people, is this:

(Disregard if you will be answering these questions in your upcoming Podcast)

Q1: Do the new AD cmdlets for Server 2008 R2 require/utilize the WSMAN protocol/infrastructure, i.e., do the Domain Controllers require the IIS components to be installed/enabled to respond to Vista client calls from the AD cmdlets?

Q2: Can the AD cmdlets even be exported & installed on a client machine, and if so, how and what OS's (w/ prerequisites) are supported?

I have been searching for the answer to this for months...since the anouncement of the AD cmdlets in Windows 7 Server (2K8 R2). Any information you can provide would be MUCH appreciated. I really don't want to have to create my own cmdlets for AD (or use open source or 3rd party code because my Government customer cringes when I use those words - without any real reason).

Thanks!

T-Bone

re: Podcast Discussing WSMAN 1/14/2008

marco.shaw — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:17:52 GMT

Another practical example of WSMAN use is with System Center Operations Manager and its cross-platform extensions beta for supporting/monitoring UNIX/Linux systems: the communication is done via WSMAN.