Invoke-Command on remote session returns local values

Question

Question

Should the script block of Invoke-Command, when run with a PSSession, always run on the remote computer?

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I ran the

Answer 1

Pipe it to fl * or ft * so it doesn't use the format file to display the registry keys. The format file runs get-itemproperty locally to try to display the properties.

From the bottom of $PSHOME\Registry.format.ps1xml for type Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey:

  $result = (Get-ItemProperty -LiteralPath $_.PSPath |
      Select * -Exclude PSPath,PSParentPath,PSChildName,PSDrive,PsProvider |
      Format-List | Out-String | Sort).Trim()
  $result = $result.Substring(0, [Math]::Min($result.Length, 5000) )
  if($result.Length -eq 5000) { $result += "..." }
  $result