PowerShell Universal v5 - PowerShell Universal Agents

[@DailenGunter]

Game. Freaking. Changer. 😮😮😮

[@TechnicalTerry]

How? What do you foresee using it for? I can think of a couple of simple things, but nothing that can’t already be accomplished another way. I’m not trying to downplay it. I do think that it’s a cool capability, but I don’t think I’m seeing it the same way you are and I am genuinely interested in extended use cases.

[@DailenGunter]

@TechnicalTerry I manage software deployments for a number of clients for an MSP and often installs require multiple steps including restarts. performing remediations in mass is immensely helpful. RMMs are helpful for deploying scripts but reporting and data gathering are awful. Agents have the advantage circumventing challenges with windows firewall, WinRM being misconfigured, multitenant permissions, remote execution over VPN, unable to access DC to authenticate execution bc of weird network setups, etc. I manage private chocolatey software repositories and occasional need to make config changes like changing the repo authentication in networks that lack a domain controller. Changing software configurations en masse like updating license key, pointing to a new network config location, etc etc. Mass email migrations from on premise exchange to 365 often require a lot of changes per workstation. If you've ever had outlook break bc of coms add-on, easiest way to disable it is via registry so executing a script via local agents would be so much faster. I live and die by the console so anything that avoids touching dozens of machines manually is big win for me 😊