# Starting an Amazon FSx remote PowerShell session
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This topic provides instructions for starting a long-lived remote PowerShell session on your FSx for Windows File Server file server.

**To start a remote PowerShell session on your file system**

1. Connect to a compute instance that has network connectivity with your file system as a user that is a member of the delegated FSx Administrators Group that you chose when you created the file system.

1.  Open a Windows PowerShell window on the compute instance. 

1. In the PowerShell, enter the following command to open a long-lived remote session on your Amazon FSx file system. Replace `Remote-PowerShell-Endpoint` with the Windows Remote PowerShell endpoint of file system that you want to administer. Use `FsxRemoteAdmin` as the session configuration name.

   ```
   PS C:\Users\delegateadmin> enter-pssession -ComputerName Remote-PowerShell-Endpoint -ConfigurationName FsxRemoteAdmin
   [fs-0123456789abcdef0]: PS>
   ```

   If your instance is not part of the Amazon FSx Active Directory domain, you are prompted to enter user credentials in a pop-up. Enter the credentials of the user that is a member of the FSx Administrators Group. If your instance is joined to the domain, you will not be asked for credentials.
**Important**  
The Windows Remote PowerShell endpoint might change if you are using self-managed Active Directory configuration and change the service account without proper Active Directory Group Policy settings. For more information, see [Changing the Amazon FSx service account](changing-ad-service-account.md) for more details.