Creates a WS-Management session option hash table to use as input parameters to the following WS-Management cmdlets: Get-WSManInstance Set-WSManInstance Invoke-WSManAction Connect-WSMan

Syntax

New-WSManSessionOption [-NoCompression <switch>] [-NoProxy <switch>] [-ProxyAuthentication <string>] [-ProxyPassword <string>] [-ProxyUserName <string>] [-SkipCACheck <switch>] [-SkipCNCheck <switch>] [-SkipRevocation <switch>] [-SPNPort <int>] [-Timeout <int>] [-UnEncrypted <switch>] [-UseIEProxyconfig <switch>] [-UseProxyAutoDetection <switch>] [-UseWinHTTPProxyConfig <switch>] [-UTF16 <switch>] [<CommonParameters>]

Description

Creates a WSMan Session option hashtable which can be passed into WSMan cmdlets:

Get-WSManInstance

Set-WSManInstance

Invoke-WSManAction

Connect-WSMan

Parameters

-NoCompression <switch>

Turns off packet compression in the session. Compression is enabled by default and the packets sent between the client and server are compressed. Compression uses more processor cycles, but it makes transmission faster.

Required?

false

Position?

named

Default Value

False

Accept Pipeline Input?

false

Accept Wildcard Characters?

false

-NoProxy <switch>

Do not use a proxy server. All all host names will be resolved locally.

Required?

false

Position?

named

Default Value

none

Accept Pipeline Input?

false

Accept Wildcard Characters?

false

-ProxyAuthentication <string>

Specifies the authentication method to use at the proxy. Possible values are:

- Basic: Basic is a scheme in which the user name and password are sent in clear-text to the server or proxy.

- Digest: Digest is a challenge-response scheme that uses a server-specified data string for the challenge.

- Negotiate (the default): Negotiate is a challenge-response scheme that negotiates with the server or proxy to determine which scheme to use for authentication. Examples are the Kerberos protocol and NTLM.

Required?

false

Position?

named

Default Value

Negotiate

Accept Pipeline Input?

false

Accept Wildcard Characters?

false

-ProxyPassword <string>

Specifies a password to to be used for proxy authentication.

Required?

false

Position?

named

Default Value

none

Accept Pipeline Input?

false

Accept Wildcard Characters?

false

-ProxyUserName <string>

Specifies a user name to to be used for proxy authentication.

Required?

false

Position?

named

Default Value

none

Accept Pipeline Input?

false

Accept Wildcard Characters?

false

-SkipCACheck <switch>

Specifies that when connecting over HTTPS, the client does not validate that the server certificate is signed by a trusted certificate authority (CA). Use this option only when the remote computer is trusted by other means, for example, if the remote computer is part of a network that is physically secure and isolated or the remote computer is listed as a trusted host in the WS-Management configuration.

Required?

false

Position?

named

Default Value

none

Accept Pipeline Input?

false

Accept Wildcard Characters?

false

-SkipCNCheck <switch>

Specifies that the certificate common name (CN) of the server does not need to match the hostname of the server. This is used only in remote operations using HTTPS. This option should only be used for trusted computers.

Required?

false

Position?

named

Default Value

none

Accept Pipeline Input?

false

Accept Wildcard Characters?

false

-SkipRevocation <switch>

Do not validate the revocation status on the server certificate.

Required?

false

Position?

named

Default Value

none

Accept Pipeline Input?

false

Accept Wildcard Characters?

false

-SPNPort <int>

Specifies a port number to append to the connection Service Principal Name <SPN> of the remote server. An SPN is used when the authentication mechanism is Kerberos or Negotiate.

Required?

false

Position?

named

Default Value

none

Accept Pipeline Input?

false

Accept Wildcard Characters?

false

-Timeout <int>

Defines the timeout in milliseconds for the WS-Management operation.

Required?

false

Position?

named

Default Value

none

Accept Pipeline Input?

false

Accept Wildcard Characters?

false

-UnEncrypted <switch>

Do not use encryption when doing remote operations over HTTP.

Note: Unencrypted traffic is not allowed by default and must be enabled in the local configuration.

Required?

false

Position?

named

Default Value

none

Accept Pipeline Input?

false

Accept Wildcard Characters?

false

-UseIEProxyconfig <switch>

Use the Internet Explorer proxy configuration for the current user. This is the default setting.

Required?

false

Position?

named

Default Value

none

Accept Pipeline Input?

false

Accept Wildcard Characters?

false

-UseProxyAutoDetection <switch>

Force auto-detection of a proxy.

Required?

false

Position?

named

Default Value

none

Accept Pipeline Input?

false

Accept Wildcard Characters?

false

-UseWinHTTPProxyConfig <switch>

Use the proxy settings configured for WinHTTP.

Required?

false

Position?

named

Default Value

none

Accept Pipeline Input?

false

Accept Wildcard Characters?

false

-UTF16 <switch>

Encode the request in UTF16 format rather than UTF8 format. The default is UTF8 encoding.

Required?

false

Position?

named

Default Value

none

Accept Pipeline Input?

false

Accept Wildcard Characters?

false

<CommonParameters>

This cmdlet supports the common parameters: -Verbose, -Debug, -ErrorAction, -ErrorVariable, -OutBuffer, and -OutVariable. For more information, see about_CommonParameters.

Inputs and Outputs

The input type is the type of the objects that you can pipe to the cmdlet. The return type is the type of the objects that the cmdlet returns.

Inputs

Outputs

SessionOption

See Also




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