RDP and run command on remote windows machine using command line - cmd

I have gone through various links on SO regarding RDP to a windows machine but still can't understand how to execute for test, ipconfig command on remote machine and gather the results in a text file.
I can't get beyond Mstsc which creates the gui and asks for password and username.

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Run a cmd command in batch script as an Administrator without UAC prompt

I have a batch file with various commands. I am transferring the batch file to a remote PC and running the file. Now I need to run a few of the commands in the batch file as an administrator but I cannot go to the remote PC to enter any password or click on any prompt.
My batch file includes the following commands:
1. winrm quickconfig -force
2. winrm set winrm/config/service/auth #{Basic="true"}
3. winrm set winrm/config/service #{AllowUnencrypted="true"}
Now the commands 2 and 3 needs to be run as an administrator. I have the admin password. Is there any command arguments like
"command" /runas /user:admin /pass:password /noprompt
Using only /runas still gives you a prompt and there is no option in runas /? that can disable it. I need a solution where I don't have to press Yes on the UAC prompt since the file will run on a remote system.
Edit: Would like to give more context. So the task is to automate the process of running configuration script on remote machine once windows is installed on it. There would be approximately 100 machines and going on each system and enabling the winrm service is not feasible. And in order to run the script remotely on the target machine, I need to enable and then make changes to the winrm service (needs admin privileges). I cannot make changes to the network. I am able to enable winrm service but making changes to winrm service requires running those commands as admin. And I cannot click on any prompt since I cannot go to the remote machine. So any advice in this regards would be helpful. I'm not trying to bypass any process. I have the admin credentials. Just trying to find the correct commands and arguments to help me achieve this.

Start Windows GUI program in the PuTTY shell

I created an SSH session into my localhost through PuTTY. I am running OpenBSD server on the localhost which is a Windows 7 machine. The login was successful. Now I want to start programs in the PuTTY shell for example notepad.exe. I changed the directory to c:\windows\system32. The command start notepad runs without error but I don't see any window.
Is the notepad running in the background without a windows. If yes, how to make the window visible??
Yes, it's quite likely the Notepad is run in an invisible Windows session on the server. Note that it does not make a difference in this case that the server is the local machine.
If you hoped for the window to appear on the "local" machine magically, you are out of luck.
Generally, it's possible to run a GUI application on remote machine and see the GUI locally. On Unix it's quite common. Typically X Window is used for that.
But Windows GUI applications cannot be "tunneled" via SSH session to a local machine.

Run batch scripts on a remote server (windows) from jenkins

I've got a continuous integration server (Jenkins ) which builds my code (checks for compilation errors) and runs tests and then deploys the files to a remote server (not a war file, but the actual file structure) I do this with a Jenkins plugin which allows me to transfer files via samba, it does this nightly.
Now, what I need to do is run an ant command on the remote server. And after that I need to start the application server on the remote server, the application server is started by running a .bat file from the command line.
I'm pretty clueless how to accomplish this, I know Jenkins is capable of running batch commands, but how do I make them run in the context of the server and not the context of the build server?
If Jenkins on Windows, remote on *nix, use plink.exe (which is essentially command line PuTTy)
If Jenkins on Windows, remote on Window, use psexec.exe
If Jenkins on *nix, remote on *nix, use ssh
If Jenkins on *nix, remote on Windows, (update 2015-01) Ansible http://docs.ansible.com/intro_windows.html has support for calling Windows commands, eg powershell, from a unix/linux machine, https://github.com/ansible/ansible-examples/blob/master/windows/run-powershell.yml
Tell me what OSes are involved (both on Jenkins and remote), and I will flash this out further.
Edit:
The download page for psexec.exe lists all command line options. You will want something along the lines of:
psexec \\remotecomputername -u remoteusername -p remotepassword cmd /c <your commands here>
Replace <your commands here> with actual commands as you would execute them from command prompt.
Note that psexec first needs to install a service, and required elevated command prompt/admin remote credentials to do so.
Also, you need to run psexec -accepteula once to accept the EULA prompt.
Following Slav's answer above, here is a simpler solution for Jenkins (*nix) to remote (windows):
Install an SSH server on your remote windows (MobaSSH home edition worked well for me)
Make sure your Jenkins user, on your Jenkins machine, has the required certification to open an SSH connection with your remote (you can simply open a terminal and ssh to your remote once, then accept the certification. Make sure it is saved for the Jenkins user).
You can now add an execute shell build phase in your Jenkins job which can SSH to your remote windows machine.
Notes :
The established connection might require some additional work - you might have to set windows environment variables or map network drivers in order for your executed commands or batch files to work properly on your windows machines.
If you wish to run GUI related operations this solution might not be relevant (Following my work on running automation tests which require GUI manipulation).
Using Jenkins SSH plugin is an issue, as seen here.
1、i install (MobaSSH home ) on my remote windows server .
2、and install jenkins ssh plugin
3、edit shell eg: go build project
4、it seems something wrong ,
" go: creating work dir: CreateFile C:\WINDOWS\system32\bsh\tmp: The system cannot find the path specified."
I ended up going with a different approach after trying out psexec.exe for a while.
Psexec.exe and copying files over the network was a bit slow and unstable, especially since the domain I work on has a policy of changing password every months (which broke the build).
In the end I went with the master/slave approach, which is faster and more stable. Since I don't have to use psexec.exe and don't have to copy files over the network.

"plink.exe" hangs on Windows Server 2008 R2, creates process "conhost.exe"

I am new to the whole Windows world. I have downloaded plink.exe from Putty's website. I am executing a plink command from the Windows Server 2008 R2(64 bit) which would execute a shell script in a Linux box.
The plink command is executed from a .dtsx package which is running as a daemon job on the Windows Server. I have accepted the host key into the registry for the Linux box using Putty and I can see it in the registry.
The command executes when I RDP into the server but does not when I am not logged in. It hangs and creates a "conhost.exe" process which stays there. I can see the "plink.exe" and "conhost.exe" in the task manager on the server.
Here is the kind of command I am running.
plink.exe user#SERVERNAME -pw password ./script_name.sh param_1 param_2 param_3
Has anybody faced/or is facing any problem like this?

executing remote psexec while logged on as SYSTEM

Step 1). log into local windows xp (sp3) machine as system account
Step 2). execute psexec test as follows on remote xp (sp3) machine
psexec \\nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn ipconfig /all
RESULT:
Couldn't access nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn
Access is denied.
Question: Why?
I am logged on as windows System user, the system user is all powerfull
i should be able to do anything, with no access restrictions at all
This doesnt work either
psexec \\nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn -s ipconfig /all
why doesnt being logged onto a local xp machine as SYSTEM give me the power to run
anything on a remote machine?
The SYSTEM account is all powerfull when it comes to the local system, but not on remote systems. Use -u to specify a username...

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