As you probably know by now, all of PowerShell remoting is done via streaming extensions to WSMAN. WSMAN<\/A> is the SOAP-based DMTF standard protocol for managing everything. As you explore the limits of what you can do with WSMAN or PowerShell remoting, you may encounter errors like this:<\/P>\n [7592:0]PS><\/FONT> New-PSSession <\/FONT><\/P>\n What is going on here is that we put in a number of default constraints into the system to protect your systems from accidental misuse. We didn\u2019t want a beginner PowerShell user writing a script which accidentally consumed all the resources on your servers. We can\u2019t protect against everything but we spent some time thinking about the common mishaps and put some default guardrails in. <\/P>\n I like the story (it might even be true \ud83d\ude42 ) about software controls on some of the fighter jets. The SW developers knew what the design limits of the planes where so they wrote the control software so that it wouldn\u2019t exceed the capabilities of the plane. The pilot\u2019s reaction was, \u201cwe\u2019d only be pushing the plane to that degree when the other alternative was getting shot down \u2013 I\u2019d rather risk having the wings tear off then being guaranteed to get shot down.\u201d So while we put in guardrails, we also put in the ability to move those guardrails. Look, they are your machines. You are smart people. You often know more than we do. We allow you to make decisions which may be great and may hurt yourself. (NOTE: In my opinion we set some of the Maximum\u2019s too low. 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<\/STRONG>[localhost] Connecting to remote server failed with the following error me
ssage : The WS-Management service cannot process the request. This user is
allowed a maximum number of 5 concurrent shells, which has been exceeded.
Close existing shells or raise the quota for this user. For more informat
ion, see the about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic.
+ CategoryInfo : OpenError: (System.Manageme….RemoteRunspa
ce:RemoteRunspace) [], PSRemotingTransportException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : PSSessionOpenFailed<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>\n
PS> dir <\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/P>\n
—- —–
AllowRemoteShellAccess true
IdleTimeout 180000
MaxConcurrentUsers 5
MaxShellRunTime 2147483647
MaxProcessesPerShell 15
MaxMemoryPerShellMB 150
MaxShellsPerUser 5 <\/FONT><\/P>\n
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