Where do the SharePoint components for Powershell come from?

Question

I am just learning and I am trying out some scripts. As soon as I type in the Get-SPWeb command I get something like this.
PS C:\Windows\system32> $web = Get-SPWeb "https://xyz.sharepoint.com/"
The term 'Get-SPWeb' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the
path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:17
+ $web = Get-SPWeb <<<<  "https://xyz.sharepoint.com/"
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (Get-SPWeb:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
Can someone please point me in the right direction?
Thanks
karl

Answer 1

Hi Karl,
If your workstation is on the same Active Directory domain as your SharePoint farm, you can also access SharePoint remotely via PowerShell remoting. You need to enable PowerShell remoting on your SharePoint servers and connect to them using PowerShell. Think
of this as SSH and running an interactive console remotely.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff700227.aspx
Once you're in the PowerShell remoting session, you can load the SharePoint PowerShell modules as was suggested earlier.
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