Disconnected PowerShell Web Access Sessions

Today we finished up one of my advanced PowerShell classes. What was unique about this one is that I ran the labs using Azure which gave the labs internet access. Because of this, we were able to play around a little bit more and access our PSWA sites on our phones. That was one cool thing, but the other thing that I never noticed is the ability to have a disconnected session.

Here is our current session:

Notice that I created a variable of $X = 5. To disconnect, just simply click Save instead of Exit.

Open your web browser again and sign into PowerShell Web Access with the same credentials. Here is what you get:

From here you can do the following:

Check the current session and select Delete. This will close the disconnected session.
Click New Session to open a fresh session.
Click PSWA1. This is your disconnected session. (You can have multiple disconnected sessions.)

Notice that when you run Get-Variable, your X variable is still present:

Also your history list is preserved.

It’s the little things that you notice from time to time that keeps things interesting.

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