Is ADO Pipeline "Powershell on target machine" able to connect to destination server using customize PSsessionconfiguration?

Question

To restrict the WinRM, we usually disable all default endpoint to connect remotely with Local\Network Deny permission for each endpoint.

For who wish to use WinRM, we always create customize sessionconfiguration for specify account to connect.

However, I cannot find a way for ADO Pipeline to connect with "Powershell on target machine v3" to use custom pssessionconfiguration because no parameter to accept as below, I only can find PSsessionoption which do not have parameter name as "configurationname" to point the customize sessionconfiguration in WinRM connection.

Example:

Enter-pssession -computername <XXXXX> - configurationname <XXXXXXX>

Please advise if anyone has some idea on this.

Answer 1

Hello there,

The Set-PSSessionConfiguration cmdlet changes the properties of the session configurations on the local computer and not on the ADO

PowerShell context expects the user name to be the fully qualified name (domain\username or machine_name\username).

Once you use the fully qualified name format, you can able to successfully connect to the remote machine via PowerShell from the pipelines.

Use this task to execute PowerShell scripts on remote machines using PSSession and Invoke-Command for remoting. PowerShellOnTargetMachines@3 - PowerShell on target machines v3 task https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/reference/powershell-on-target-machines-v3?view=azure-pipelines

Hope this resolves your Query !!

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