A few years ago I published a PowerShell function to test IP addresses on a given subnet. I had an email the other day about it and I decided to refresh it. My new version adds a few bells and whistles that I think you might like. For example, you can now run it from…
Tag: Test-Connection
Test-Subnet WinForm
Recently, I posted an entry on how to ping an IP subnet with PowerShell. Using objects in the PowerShell pipeline is a good thing. But sometimes we want a GUI and I figured the ping subnet script would make a good WinForm script.
Ping IP Range
Last week I came across a post on using PowerShell, or more specifically a .NET Framework class, to ping a range of computers in an IP subnet. The original post by Thomas Maurer is here. I added a comment. And after looking at this again I decided to take the ball and run with it…
Test Connection Troubles
In this week’s Prof. PowerShell column, I have an article on using the Test-Connection in Windows PowerShell. I thought it was pretty straightforward, but I didn’t take problems into account. I received an email asking what to do about error messages. For example, what if you have a computername in the list that can’t be…