In an environment with good security practice applied, you’ll likely find you can’t copy files to a secure server over RDP or via the usual methods:
- UNC to the server (
\\servername\c$\) - RDP via clipboard (
Ctrl+con your client,Ctrl+von the server) - RDP via redirected drive (
\\tsclient\c)
Fortunately, WMF5 brings a new capability to PowerShell; the ability to copy files into and out of a PowerShell session. This is super easy to demonstrate:
$session = New-PSSession -ComputerName MyServer
Copy-Item -Path "C:\myfile.txt" -Target "C:\SomeServerFolder" -ToSession $session
You can use the Copy-Item cmdlet as per normal, just add the -ToSession parameter and pass in a PowerShell session. You’ll even get a pretty progress bar if you decide to copy large or multiple files.
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