What if you put together Work From Home and Home Automation? Well, removing the common denominator (HOME) would mean Work Automation (sic!). I want to tell you about a tiny hobby project I have had at home, still related to work of mine: Whenever an Azure alert is triggered, my Trådfri smart light from IKEA flashes for a couple of seconds. Summary (if you want to skip the long story below): The solution is a tiny web application.

To run powershell remotely is really easy. First enable it on the machine which will receive the remote commands: Enable-PSRemoting Then go to another machine and connect to your host: $cred = Get-Credential Enter-PSSession -Computername dev -Credential $cred If you want to know more about powershell remoting, I recommend “A layman’s guide…”. See even a detailed example on poshcode.