What is WinRM
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WinRM ( windows remote management) is the Microsoft implementation of WS-Management protocol built in the operating system. WinRM first shipped in Windows Server 2003 R2 and enhanced in Windows Vista. WS-Management is a DMTF standard http://www.dmtf.org/standards/wsman/. The protocol is based on standard WS-* specifications that support following operations.
GET/PUT/CREATE/DELETE invidual management resources
ENUMERATE contents of containers and collections
SUBSCRIBE to events emitted by managed resources.
EXECUTE specific management methods with strongly typed input and output.
WinRM is a standard SOAP based firewall friendly protocol that allows hardware and operating systems from different vendors to interoperate. The main goal of this standard is to make management devices and systems easier in a heterogeneous systems.
