Windows Remote management?

[wolfgangam]

Hi,

In the office I work at we have about 30 stations, all with windows 10 and 7 there is no domain, no windows server, only a Linux Debian server that runs samba for our shared network drive. 

 

I'm looking for a way to manage them all from one location (one of the windows 7 stations) and I can't figure this out... I want to be able to enable remote desktop from remote, check installed software, maybe even install software from remote.

 

Hopefully I'm in the right forum, wasn't sure if it's more network connected or operation system...

Thanks. 

[Eigenvektor]

28 minutes ago, wolfgangam said:

I want to be able to enable remote desktop from remote, check installed software, maybe even install software from remote.

That would be a security issue, don't you think? You will have to enable remote desktop services locally, before you can connect remotely, in the future. Once you're connected you can do anything a local user can do, but you will log off whoever is working at that machine. Multiple concurrent users are only allowed on server versions of Windows.

[wolfgangam]

Not looking for remote desktop, looking for remote management, like maybe WinRM if available in these windows versions? 

Imagine I want to deploy a new Anti-virus to all the computers on the network, or I want to check that everyone has their windows firewall enabled.

I know that's all possible with a windows server and a domain , but I don't have that setup.

 

Remote desktop is already enable, but the port isn't open in our router, so it's just available locally which I don't see as a security issue. 

[Eigenvektor]

4 minutes ago, wolfgangam said:

Remote desktop is already enable, but the port isn't open in our router, so it's just available locally which I don't see as a security issue. 

I meant the "enable remote desktop from remote" part 

 

You might be able to do something with PowerShell: https://sid-500.com/2018/04/02/powershell-how-to-get-a-list-of-all-installed-software-on-remote-computers/

[wolfgangam]

How would enable remote desktop from remote if I have the admin password of one of the computers on the network? 

The end of the manual you sent does refer to some remote command to get list of software, but the command from that manual "Get-CimInstance" isn't recognize in my powershell, it might be for server only.