There is no console for a Windows 10 IoT device. They can though be remotely accessed in a variety of ways. This blog summarises these options: PowerShell, Default App Web Console, FTP, Remote File System and Visual Studio Debugger.
Applications running on a Win 10 IoT device, such as the default app, have access to APIs to the operating system, although as Universal Windows Apps they are somewhat sandboxed compared to raw Win32 apps. The default app display system configuration such as:
The system driver interrogation APIs are covered in a number of blogs in this series. Local Storage will be covered in a subsequent blog. Win 10 IoT does not support a command shell. This blog is focused upon remote access to the file system and commands.
In what follows it assumes that the system is in its initial state. That is the system name is minwinpc, the administrator password is p@ssw0rd. For any series activity though, you would change these of course.
Options for remote access:
Run Powershell as administrator Commands: net start WinRM set-Item WSMan:\localhost\Client\TrustedHosts -Value minwinpc enter-pssession -computername minwinpc -credential localhost\administrator
Run Powershell as administrator
net start WinRM
set-Item WSMan:\localhost\Client\TrustedHosts -Value minwinpc
enter-pssession -computername minwinpc -credential localhost\administrator
Dave, nice summary.