PowerShell for Windows and Linux Administrators — Lesson 3: Remoting, CIM, and Cross-Platform Operations

Learning Objectives

• Configure and use PowerShell remoting securely
• Query and manage systems with CIM sessions and classes
• Handle platform differences, paths, permissions, services, and packages

Detailed Topics

• Configure and use PowerShell remoting securely: Configure and use PowerShell remoting securely
• Query and manage systems with CIM sessions and classes: Query and manage systems with CIM sessions and classes
• Handle platform differences: Handle platform differences, paths, permissions, services, and packages

Guided Demonstration

1. Review the requirement, environment, dependencies, roles, risks, and expected outcome.
2. Demonstrate the relevant configuration, analysis, code, or administration workflow step by step.
3. Capture settings, outputs, logs, screenshots, calculations, or test evidence.
4. Compare the observed result with the stated acceptance criteria.

Hands-On Activity

Run a secure multi-system administration task across Windows and Linux.

• Document assumptions and the planned sequence before making changes.
• Complete the activity and preserve evidence of normal and exception behavior.
• Record issues, corrective actions, and reusable operational or development notes.

Troubleshooting Focus

• Separate symptoms from causes and collect evidence before applying a fix.
• Check configuration, permissions, data, dependencies, capacity, connectivity, and recent changes.
• Validate rollback, recovery, support ownership, and user or business impact.

Validation Checklist

• The requirement and expected outcome are clear.
• The selected configuration, design, query, code, or process is documented.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, and operational conditions are reviewed.
• The result is supported by evidence and the next improvement is prioritized.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can explain and apply Remoting, CIM, and Cross-Platform Operations in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.