Running Best Practice Analyzer on remote 2008 R2 domain controllers

Hello Powershell World,
I'll start out by first mentioning that I am a powershell rookie so I gladly welcome any input to help me improve or work more efficiently.  Anyway, I recently used powershell to run the best practice analyzer for DNS on all of our domain controllers.
 The way I went about was pretty tedious and inefficient but still got the job done through a series of one-liners and exported the report to a UNC path as follows:
Enable-PSremoting -Force (I logged into all of the domain controllers individually and ran this before running the one-liners below from my workstation)
New-PSSession -Name <Session Name> -ComputerName <Hostname>
Enter-PSSession -Name <Session Name>
Import-Module bestpractices
Invoke-BPAModel Microsoft/Windows/DNSServer
Get-BPAResult Microsoft/Windows/DNSServer | Select ModelId,Severity,Category,Title,Problem,Impact,Resolution,Compliance,Help | Sort Category | Export-CSV \\server\share\BPA_DNS_SERVERNAME.csv
I'm looking to do this again but for the Directory Services best practice analyzer without having to individually enable remoting on the domain controllers and also provide a lsit of servers for the script to run against. 
Thanks in advance for all your help!

What do you mean by "without having to individually enable remoting "?
You cannot remote without enabling remoting.  You only need to enable remoting once.  It is a configuraiton change.  If you have done it once you do not need to do it again.
Here is how to runfrom a list of DCs.
$sb={
Import-Module bestpractices
Invoke-BPAModel Microsoft/Windows/DNSServer
Get-BPAResult Microsoft/Windows/DNSServer |
Select ModelId,Severity,Category,Title,Problem,Impact,Resolution,Compliance,Help |
Sort Category |
Export-CSV "\\server\share\BPA_DNS_$env:COMPUTERNAME.csv"
Invoke-BPAModel Microsoft/Windows/DirectoryServices
# etc...
ForEach($dc in $listofDCs){
Invoke-Command -ScriptBlock $sb -Computer $dc
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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