Yeah, PS remoting is basically a no-go before server 2012, and even then it&#x27;s just barely functional enough to be occasionally useful. They&#x27;re planning on adding SSH support though, so I&#x27;m cautiously optimistic.<p>I don&#x27;t think something like Python would have been a good choice to use instead of PS. While I&#x27;m sympathetic to the complaint that PS is more of a programming language than a shell, that&#x27;s even more true of Python. I use PS as a shell far more often than I use it for complicated scripting, and as much as I like Python, I just can&#x27;t see using it as a shell.