Enforcing Least-Privilege Remote Administration with PowerShell JEA
Setting up Just Enough Administration so a support team can run specific, pre-approved remote commands without ever holding full administrative rights on the target servers.
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Setting up Just Enough Administration so a support team can run specific, pre-approved remote commands without ever holding full administrative rights on the target servers.
Declaring a machine's desired configuration state once, then letting PowerShell Desired State Configuration continuously enforce it, instead of manually re-applying settings after every drift.
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