Overview of standards-based Windows Remote Management and what's coming in v2.0

Whether it's network restrictions, agent deployment constraints or just domain separation, see how the new Windows Remote Management technologies in Windows Server 2008 can extend your management, monitoring and troubleshooting into environments that were previously blocked. We'll demonstrate how these powerful technologies are built on the new Web Services for Management (WS-Man) DMTF standard and leverage the new WINRM, WINRS (Windows Remote Shell) command-line utilities, and PowerShell to remotely manage and troubleshoot a production Windows Server 2008 web server in the Microsoft Internet DMZ. These aren't local Virtual PCs! Over the open Internet, these demos will be accessing WMI properties and methods, Windows Events and a remote command shell, all over an out-of-the box encrypted HTTP management channel. In addition, we'll show how these new Windows Remote Management technologies have been made available for down-level XP and Server 2003 environments and we'll discuss both the advantages and limitations of these extensions. The session will finish by demonstrating how PowerShell scripts can bring all of this together.