How to run a local bat file on a remote computer

Question

Is it possible to use psexec to run a local bat file on a remote computer (windows 7)? or would I have to first copy it over to the remote location and then run it?

Answer 1

I would suggest using psexec which is part of the SysInternals Suite.

psexec \\remotemachine -u remoteuser -i -d cmd -c localdisk:\folder\batchfile.bat

-c will copy from local path

Answer 2

You can use WMIC or SCHTASKS:

1) SCHTASKS:

SCHTASKS /s remote_machine /U username /P password /create /tn "On demand demo" /tr "C:\some.bat" /sc ONCE /sd 01/01/1910 /st 00:00
SCHTASKS /s remote_machine /U username /P password /run /TN "On demand demo" 

2) WMIC (wmic will return the pid of the started process)

WMIC /NODE remote_machine /user user /password password process call create "c:\some.bat","c:\exec_dir"