How to remote to the computer itself with powershell - powershell

Question

Now I need to run scripts on remote machines to do some deployment work by using:
Invoke-Command -ComputerName $hostName -Credential $cred -ScriptBlock $scriptBlock
And if the $hostName is the computer that calls this command, it reports:
message : Access is denied. For more information, see the about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic.
+ CategoryInfo : OpenError: (myMachineName:String) [], PSRemotingTransportException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : AccessDenied,PSSessionStateBroken
I want to run the command in a unified way no matter it is a remote or the local machine.
Updated:
I'm using using a machine in Azure. this command works:
Invoke-Command -ComputerName XXX -Credential $cred -ScriptBlock $scriptBlock
But this one not:
Invoke-Command -ComputerName XXX.cloudapp.net -Credential $cred -ScriptBlock $scriptBlock
Can anybody help?

Answer 1

Pass localhost as the computer name:
Invoke-Command -ComputerName localhost -Credential $cred -ScriptBlock $scriptBlock
Using the hostname of the computer should also work, as mentioned by #CB. in the comments to the question:
Invoke-Command -ComputerName $env:COMPUTERNAME -Credential $cred `
-ScriptBlock $scriptBlock
If you need the FQDN elsewhere and just want to remove the domain part for the Invoke-Command statement you can remove it like this:
Invoke-Command -ComputerName ($hostname -replace '\..*') -Credential $cred `
-ScriptBlock $scriptBlock
To handle the target computer name depending on whether or not the given hostname is the name of the local host you could do something like this:
$server = if (($hostname -replace '\..*') -eq $env:COMPUTERNAME) {
'localhost'
} else {
$hostname
}
Invoke-Command -ComputerName $server -Credential $cred -ScriptBlock $scriptBlock
Note that either way WinRM must be enabled on the local computer for this to work.