Delete files and folders older than x days in remote windows server using windows powershell

Question

I am new to windows powershell. I have a script to identify the files and folders older than x files and delete it. but I need a script to check the same in remote windows server and do the same. Here is my code:

$Now = Get-Date
$Days = "3"
$TargetFolder = "D:\hudson_slave\workspace"
$LastWrite = $Now.AddDays(-$Days)
$Files = Get-Childitem $TargetFolder -Include $Extension -Recurse | Where {$_.LastWriteTime -le "$LastWrite"} 

 foreach ($File in $Files)
     {
     if ($File -ne $NULL)
         {
         write-host "Deleting File $File" -ForegroundColor "DarkRed"
           Remove-Item $File.FullName | out-null
         }
     else
         {
         Write-Host "No more files to delete!" -foregroundcolor "Green"
         }
     }

Could any one please help me to delete the 3 days older files and folders in remote server (using IP)

Answer 1

As Oggew stated you can delete them through a share

$TargetFolder = "\\server\sharename\folder"

You can also create and enter a PSSession. This is like you would work in a powershell console on the remote host.

Enter-PSSession servername

This way you can run your code as is. To use this you must enable PSRemoting first. Please take a look at about_remote .

Additionally you can use this command to remove the files.

$Files | Remove-Item