PowerShell 2.0: One Cmdlet at a Time #35 New-PSSessionOption

Continuing the series looking at new cmdlets available in PowerShell 2.0. This time we look at the New-PSSessionOption cmdlet.

What can I do with it?

Create a new object with advanced session settings to be used when opening PowerShell remote sessions.

Examples:

Show the possible options which can be set with New-PSSessionOption

New-PSSessionOption

Set some advanced session options via the $sessionoptions variable and use them to make a remote PowerShell connection.

$sessionoptions = New-PSSessionOption 
-IdleTimeout 600000 -NoCompression -NoMachineProfile
New-PSSession -ComputerName Test01 -SessionOption $sessionoptions

Notice the difference from the default in the options which have been set.

How could I have done this in PowerShell 1.0?

Remoting did not exist in PowerShell 1.0, you would have needed to use Remote Desktop to run an interactive session on a remote server.

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