A very short post simply to expose a cool trick that will most likley help all of us out when we are doing PowerShell remoting and answer the following question: How to run a local powershell function remotley ?

I stumbled on this topic because I wrote this function locally, and I developped it because I was logic for me that I would only be able to work locally.

Eventually I ended up needing to get that same information from remote machines, but I did not want to add any “computerName” parameter to my function. The idea was to keep it as simply as possible.

My function was a function that retrieves the software updates that are currently installed on the machine. It is based on a ComObject, which doesn’t have native remoting capabilities.

The function is named “Get-WindowsUpdates” (the content of this function is yet not that important right now since this will work for any function. But if you are curious can get it right here –> https://www.powershelldistrict.com/get-windowsupdates/). In a report script (which I will blog about shortly too ;)) I actually needed to get this information as well. I then asked my self  How to run a  a local powershell function remotley ?

How to run a local powershell function remotley ?

The answer is Invoke-Command in combination with the function: ps drive. See my example below

[important]Use Invoke-Command using the Function PSdrive to make your local functions available remotley.[/important]

Voila, pretty simple, but this will defenitly save you some time and efforts when remoting is needed.

Stéphane