Transferring files through remote shell connections

Since the Exchange 2016 Management Shell commands are executed through a remote PowerShell session, importing and exporting files requires a new special syntax. There are a handful of shell cmdlets that require this, and, in this recipe, we'll take a look at the syntax that needs to be used to transfer files through a remote shell connection.

How to do it...

Let's say that we are about to import a certificate to the Exchange server, more specifically the client access services. We can import the file using the Get-Content cmdlet, using syntax similar to the following:

[byte[]]$data = Get-Content -Path ".\ExportedCert.pfx" `-Encoding Byte `-ReadCount 0$password = Get-CredentialImport-ExchangeCertificate -FileData $data -Password $password.Password

In this example, the file data is first read into a variable called $data. The certificate import is done by using the Import-ExchangeCertificate cmdlet by signing the $data variable as a value to...