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Setting up PowerShell remoting.

First, you need to install PowerShell version 2.

Enabling remoting on the server machine

Log in to the server machine, start PowerShell as an administrator and execute:

Enable-PSRemoting

Answer Y to all questions.

Allowing the client to connect to everybody

By default PowerShell can't connect to arbitrary hosts. You need to allow that. Here are the commands:

cd WSMan:\localhost\Client
Set-Item TrustedHosts *
Restart-Service WinRm

This one says that we can connect to (trust) all hosts (*).

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