In an environment with good security practice applied, you’ll likely find you can’t copy files to a secure server over RDP or via the usual methods:

• UNC to the server (\\servername\c$\)
• RDP via clipboard (Ctrl+c on your client, Ctrl+v on the server)
• RDP via redirected drive (\\tsclient\c)

Fortunately, WMF5 brings a new capability to PowerShell; the ability to copy files into and out of a PowerShell session. This is super easy to demonstrate:

$session = New-PSSession -ComputerName MyServer
Copy-Item -Path "C:\myfile.txt" -Target "C:\SomeServerFolder" -ToSession $session

You can use the Copy-Item cmdlet as per normal, just add the -ToSession parameter and pass in a PowerShell session. You’ll even get a pretty progress bar if you decide to copy large or multiple files.