1.4 Relationship to Other Protocols

The PowerShell Remoting Protocol uses the Web Services Management Protocol Extensions for Windows Vista (WSMV) as specified in [MS-WSMV] to establish a connection and to transfer data between the client and the server. WSMV is built on top of the following protocols.

• SOAP (Version 1.2) [SOAP1.2-1/2003]

• The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1) [RFC2616] or HTTP Over TLS [RFC2818]

• The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) [RFC793]

• The Internet Protocol (IP) [RFC791]

Figure 1: Relationship of PowerShell Remoting Protocol to other protocols