Monday, February 5, 2018

Telemote product includes interactive PowerShell remote capabilities - an industry first!

Telemote product lunched by Pragma on Feb 5, 2018 includes a WinRM server and client to make PowerShell remote sessions have full interactive sessions. WinRM stand for Windows Remote Management which is WSMAN ( Web services Management ) protocol standard and API based server and client modules built with every Windows operating systems. WinRM API and transport is what PowerShell uses for remote sessions. But Microsoft's PowerShell remote session can only run line oriented programs and no interactive programs like edit, vi or emacs. Pragma Telemote fixes that. Telemote includes pragma written WinRM/WSMAN API based server and clients that runs PowerShell with full interactive power. Thus one can run any console or command line programs, including interactive editors. Full windows security is maintained and PowerShell sessions run over secure WSMAN/WinRM transport.

One invokes it from the Telemote gui by right clicking a host and running Powershell verb. From powershell or command line one invokes it by running "pragmawsc.exe hostname" or "pragmawsc.exe hostname -username:mydomain\myname" syntax.

Telemote is the only product in the industry that can accomplish this feat - run interactive programs over remote PowerShell. Microsoft's own PowerShell remote bundled with Windows cannot. This feature was implemented with after conversations with Microsoft PowerShell team who felt there was need for such capabilities. In fact, Pragma's implementation is so fast that we are even able to play PowerShell interactive games like space invaders over Telemote PowerShell remote sessions. This feature was demonstrated to Microsoft PowerShell team pleasing both our teams.

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