Comments on: Moving unpingable computers

By: halr9000

halr9000 — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 18:26:15 +0000

Hmm, my script might need slight modifications in order to work with $_.name. It expects $_ to be a parseable string. Seems like Guarhoth (http://thepowershellguy.com/blogs/gaurhoth/) dealt with a similar situation by checking the object type in a switch statement and pulling out the right property names as needed. I’ll have to do that.

By: halr9000

halr9000 — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 18:20:52 +0000

You may wnat to check out my Select-Alive function. It acts like a filter, making the where-object part unnecessary. Your example turns into this:

Get-QADComputer | select-alive | Move-QADObject -NewParentContainer ps64.local/Recycled

http://halr9000.com/article/447

By: BSonPosh

BSonPosh — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:51:02 +0000

While I appreciate the trackback, I should warn that Test-Port isn’t really a ping. It just makes a TCP Socket connection to a given port (135 RPC by default.) If you want a ping I use the function below for that. It is an actual ICMP ping. Test-Port is great if your company blocks pings or you want to specify a timeout, also the port is configurable.

function Ping-Server {
Param([string]$server)
$pingresult = Get-WmiObject win32_pingstatus -f “address=’$Server’”
if($pingresult.statuscode -eq 0) {$true} else {$false}
}