Remotely access certificate store using Powershell

Question

I have the following script which brings back any certificates on the local machine needed for our VPN client and shows the expiry date:

$asset = $env:COMPUTERNAME

Set-Location cert:\LocalMachine\My

Write-Host = "Asset ID:"$asset

Get-ChildItem -Recurse cert: | select subject, notafter

write-host "`n"

Read-Host "Press any key to exit..."

(Get-Host).SetShouldExit(0)

It runs perfectly on my local machine, bring back the following:

Subject                                              NotAfter                                            
-------                                              --------                                            
CN=HW008551D.hca.local                               21/07/2018 09:46:08

Is there a way I can run this on a remote machine, which looks at that machines certificate store rather than the local machines?

I have tried a few different methods but unable to find anything that works

Invoke-Command -computername $asset -scriptblock {Get-ChildItem -Recurse cert: | select subject, notafter} — BenH
– BenH, Commented Feb 15, 2017 at 15:56

Anto Varghese · Accepted Answer · 2021-12-08 05:42:20Z

1

Make sure you have the PSRemoting configured. Then you can use the Invoke-Command to get your job done.

$Computername= 'remotecomputer'
$RemoteMachine_cred =Get-Credential
Invoke-Command -ComputerName $Computername  -ScriptBlock {Get-ChildItem -Recurse cert: | select subject, notafter} -Credential $RemoteMachine_cred

Links to configure PSRemoting:

1) Use Remote Commands in PowerShell

2) Run PS Commands on Remote Computers

Note: You can put all the script inside a scriptblock and you can pass it as a value of scriptblock in single shot.

Hope it helps.

edited Dec 8, 2021 at 5:42

Anto Varghese

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answered Feb 15, 2017 at 16:01

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ryanmaddock Over a year ago

Thanks for this. I have tested on a test network and this works great, unfortunately the way our domain is setup, I can't get it to run successfully remotely. I've created a workaround using a batch file which is run locally on the machine and this will do the trick. Thanks again.

Patrick Over a year ago

I had following issue when I tried to read all certificates from the remote machine: windowsserver.uservoice.com/forums/301869-powershell/…

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