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PowerShell remoting: Using WS-Management, PowerShell 2.0 allows scripts and cmdlets to be invoked on a remote machine or a large set of remote machines. Background jobs: Also called a PSJob, it allows a command sequence (script) or pipeline to be invoked asynchronously. Jobs can be run on the local machine or on multiple remote machines.
Once all the boot and system drivers have been loaded, the kernel starts the session manager (smss.exe), which begins the login process. After the user has successfully logged into the machine, winlogon applies User and Computer Group Policy setting and runs startup programs declared in the Windows Registry and in "Startup" folders. [5]
The running environment is embeddable in other programs via the Microsoft Script Control (msscript.ocx). VBScript has been installed by default in every desktop release of Microsoft Windows since Windows 98 ; [ 2 ] in Windows Server since Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack ; [ 3 ] and optionally with Windows CE (depending on the device it is installed on).
Windows Script Host may be used for a variety of purposes, including logon scripts, administration and general automation. Microsoft describes it as an administration tool. [5] WSH provides an environment for scripts to run – it invokes the appropriate script engine and provides a set of services and objects for the script to work with. [5]
Boot Configuration Data is stored in a data file that has the same format as Windows Registry hives and is eventually mounted at registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\BCD00000 [6] (with restricted permissions [7]). For UEFI boot, the file is located at /EFI/Microsoft/Boot/BCD on the EFI System Partition.
Used together with file virtualization, this allows applications to run on a machine without being installed on it. Low integrity processes may also use registry virtualization. For example, Internet Explorer 7 or 8 running in "Protected Mode" on Windows Vista and above will automatically redirect registry writes by ActiveX controls to a ...
File transfer (between helper's and end user's machine) No (workaround: via file share or file sharing cloud service) No (workaround: via file share or file sharing cloud service) Running scripts remotely (e.g. ipconfig) No (workaround: scripts have to be copied to the remote machine first and executed from there)
Shadow Copy (also known as Volume Snapshot Service, [1] Volume Shadow Copy Service [2] or VSS [2]) is a technology included in Microsoft Windows that can create backup copies or snapshots of computer files or volumes, even when they are in use.