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How can I expose an embedded PowerShell runspace to remoting

I have an ASP.Net application which can run embedded runspaces for which I have built a fairly extensive PowerShell functionality including:

  • Interactive console, and Web base ISE-like UI
  • a number of commandlets exposing the app functionality & management
  • a PS drive provider to browse the app content... etc.

The trouble is that I need that functionality to be accessible by Windows PowerShell Console to be available to build scripts or configuration scripts etc., so I would need to expose such an embedded runspace externally via PowerShell remoting. I know of the existence of PowerShellTunnel and the remoting verver that preceeded this but those solutions are limited. I would need to expose the full functionality of such runspace to the external scripts e.g. in interactive mode, I have the Web/in-app interactivity sorted. But to have the full story I need the remoting part.

Has anyone done this and could you point me in a direction where I can find how can I enable remote (or even local) Windows Powershell console to be able to create a proper connection to my app?

Solution

  • What about using an Http channel like Scott Hanselman wrote about some time ago?

    http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ScriptBlockAndRunspaceRemotingInPowerShell.aspx