How to access the web-application hosted on the another Farm using SharePoint 2010 Management Shell?

Question

I am trying to access the web-application that is hosted on the another SharePoint 2010 Farm using SharePoint 2010 Management Shell cmdlets but it is failing with the below error message

$spsite = Get-SPSite http://demoserver:8080<br/>
Get-SPSite : Cannot find an SPSite object with Id or Url: http://demoserver:8080.
At line:1 char:21
+ $spsite = Get-SPSite <<<<  http://demoserver:8080
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidData: (Microsoft.Share...SPCmdletGetSite:SPCmdletGetSite) [Get-SPSite], SPCm
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell.SPCmdletGetSite

same account is used as a FARM account in both the Farms.

Even, I tried with the below powershell script also failed.

[void][reflection.assembly]::Loadwithpartialname("Microsoft.SharePoint")

$spsite=[Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite]("http://demoserver:8080")

Is that mean that we can't access the web-application hosted on another Farm?

Answer 1

First you need to enable PowerShell remoting: Enable-PSRemoting

You'll want to use these commands as well:

Get-Credential

Enable-WSManCredSSP

Invoke-Command

Here's a blog post that describes the steps.