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What port does PowerShell remoting use?

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Christopher Weaver
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May 15, 2019
First published on TECHNET on Jun 20, 2012 So I had written a script for a customer to update all the SharePoint servers in a farm and then run PSConfig and it worked great (More of that later) ...
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SaqibMalik
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Apr 01, 2024

Hi Team, 

 

I allow port 80 to the server so that PS can work. But security team concern in why we are not using default port 

By default PowerShell will use the following ports for communication (They are the same ports as WinRM)

 

TCP/5985 = HTTP

 

TCP/5986 = HTTPS

 

Please guide on this