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How to find out, if a remote Session has allready been imported

When we import-pssession, Poweshell creates a temporary module for implicit remoting. When we remove-pssession, all the temporary modules that belong to it (Powershell creates a new module every time we Import the session!) are removed.

My goal is to know, if a certain PSSession has been already imported or not. The idea was to find out, if there are modules bound to this session. Unfortunately I could not find any properties in modules that would reference the session neither the session properties referencing the modules. But Powershell knows it somehow!

Does anyone have an idea?

Thanks
Alexander Lerner

FOX

run the command Get-PSSession to see which sessions are connected to the local computer
run the command Get-PSSessionConfiguration to see the registered session configurations on the local computer

AlLerner

ASKER

Unfortunately it does not solve the Problem. Please read the question again. Thank you.

FOX

The command Get-Module will show you all modules you have on your session

AlLerner

ASKER

Thank you. On which session? I am still in my local session, but I have imported a remote-session and now I look for indices, that a certain remote session has already been imported.

FOX

using Get-PSSession will show you all sessions on your local machine. Each session has an ID/guid number. from there you can use a
Connect-PSSession IDNumber

in your powershell run a get-help Get-PSSession -detailed (for syntax)
Also run get-help PSSession -detailed (for more commands)

AlLerner

ASKER

Dear Foxluv... Please, read my question. I don't want to know the ID of the session. I don't want to connect to session because it has never been disconnected. I want to know, if the session has been imported!!!!!!

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AlLerner

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Well, it is not exactly what I would like to use, because Microsoft can change the description of such module any time it likes, somewhere between the release 5 and 6. Mor than that, the description is in the language of OS, so it can be tricky to look, where exactly in is the URI (not actually the server name) of the session to look for. But there is likely nothin else one could actually use.

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ID: 41769351 provides a method that will work for at least some circumstances.
ID: 41774352 provides a method that is more reliable.