At a distance; disconnected.
A remote operator may control the vehicle with a wireless handset.
Ellipsis of remote control.
I hate it when my uncle comes over to visit; he always sits in the best chair and hogs the remote.
From Middle English remote, from Old French remot, masculine, remote, feminine, from Latin remotus, past participle of removere (“to remove”), from re- + movere (“to move”).
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Slight.
There was only a remote possibility that we would be rescued as we were far outside of the regular shipping lanes.
An element of broadcast programming originating away from the station's or show's control room.
A source control repository hosted on a remote machine, rather than locally.
These requirements are applicable whether you are remoting into a server or locally executing SharePoint cmdlets.