SharePoint Remote Powershell Session - Can't find the local farm

Question

Hi,
I've been trying to configure a remote PS session to connect to a SharePoint Farm to create site objects.  I can get connected and load the SharePoint PS snap in successfully but when I try commands like Get-SPWeb all I get is an error "Cannot
access the local farm".
If I launch PS on the SharePoint server and add the snap in I can use the CMDLETs fine.  I've ensured PS remoting is enabled and granted access so that the client computer is authorised to connect to the SharePoint server.
Here is the connection code I've used:
$RunAsAccount = "domain\user"
$RunAsPass = "password"
$pass = $RunAsPass | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force
$credentials = New-Object -TypeName System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -ArgumentList $RunAsAccount, $pass
enter-pssession -computername spserver.domain.local -credential $credentials
Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.Powershell
The connection user is a local administrator on the sharepoint server and is a dbowner of the sharepoint config and content databases (for testing) and also has shell access on the sharepoint config DB.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Tim

Answer 1

Remoting isn't quite that nice.
I believe you need to use an invoke-command to run the snapin on the destination server, or import the commandlets locally to slightly different names.
To borrow the important section for your needs first you'd need to put the session into a variable for later use, then use the invoke-command cmdlet
"$session = New-PSSession -computername "SPServer" -Authentication CredSSP -Credential $crd
Start Remoting on you Client Computer
Now your client computer is ready to actually create the session and import the SharePoint commands from the Server.
The next command adds the SharePoint PowerShell commands to your session.
Invoke-Command -Session $session -ScriptBlock{Add-PsSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell}
Note, that at this point, you can run whatever administrative PowerShell commands you need to run by using the Invoke-Command -Session $session -ScriptBlock{} syntax."
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/varun_malhotra/archive/2010/06/10/configure-power-shell-for-remote-use-of-sp-2010.aspx