Think you have to be a Local Admin for PowerShell Remoting to work? Think again…

Windows PowerShell Blog - You Don’t Have to Be An Administrator to Run Remote PowerShell Commands

“I was just read blog entry which complained about having to have administrative access to execute PowerShell commands against a remote server.  This is not the case.

We are “secure by default” which means that if you want to do something that exposes a security risk to your machines, you have to make a conscious decision to do so.  We are secure by default so that you can feel confident in putting PowerShell on all your machines.  Your risks are a function of the decisions you make after  you install PowerShell and we’ll educate you about the risks and benefits of those decisions.  (Run “Get-Help about_Execution_Policies” to see a great example of that.)

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If you decide you want to allow others, what you do is run the command:

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…This brings up the following dialog box which allows you to give others the ability to run commands on that machine:

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I love learning something new every day… :)