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A nice article on getting Windows 7 to allow Remote Management

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff700227.aspx  Key steps are: Start Powershell as Admin type: get-service winrm type: Enable-PSRemoting    Afterwards, the WinRM service should be running and you should have an enabled firewall rule for WinRM, you can verify that the service is running by typing... get-service winrm | format-list

In Windows 7, how to create a route for a dial up PPTP VPN in powershell

# # VPN Route Fixer $VPNName = "VPN Name" $NetToRoute = "172.x.x.0/x" #----------------------------------------------------------- # Dial the VPN Connection rasdial $VPNName # Get the IP Address of the VPN Connection $vpnObj = Get-WmiObject -Namespace 'root/standardcimv2'        MSFT_NetIPaddress |        Where-Object { $_.InterfaceAlias -eq $VPNName } |        Select IPAddress $vpnIP = $vpnObj.IPAddress route add $NetToRoute mask 255.255.255.0 $vpnIP