Best practices for writting PowerShell scripts for local and remote usage

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Published on 2010-04-19T15:09:17Z Indexed on 2010/04/19 15:13 UTC
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What are some of the best practices for writting scripts that will execute in a remote context?

For instance, I just discovered that built-in var $Profile doesn't exist during remote execution.

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