If you use VisionApp Remote Desktop in your environment then you know it’s an extremely valuable tool. If you are not familiar with it then here is a snippet from the product’s website.

visionapp Remote Desktop makes it easy to manage remote connections to Windows-based systems. Administrators who need to maintain simultaneous connections to multiple systems can create and organize Connection-specific settings and login credentials for quick access and simplified day-to-day use.

It’s a life-saver for admins by allowing you to maintain multiple tabbed connections to a whole library of SSH, ICA, RDP, VNC, and Telnet with saved credentials.  I have used it for many years now, but I finally realized one of its other great hidden potentials.

In the application you can create “External Applications”. External Applications are simply applications that you can reference from inside the product. I decided that I would really benefit from having Windows PowerShell at my ready within this application, so I created a PowerShell External Application. As you can see by the image to the left I have three commands. Yes, I usually have a PowerShell console open, but having it within the application makes it much more efficient. Why? Well I am able to embed the computer’s name within the command. So now I can right-click the computer and select the “Windows PowerShell (remote)” application and immediately have a PowerShell session on the remote machine via WinRM. (The computers must have WinRM enabled to connect to them of course.) I also created a couple of local PowerShell sessions for a quick session when you need them.

If you are interested in the applications then you can download them from here.