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In PowerShell, Get-WMIObject is a terrific cmdlet for remotely managing systems. If you have a text list of server or computer names, here's a quick method you could enumerate that list and do something to each server.<\/font><\/p>\n

foreach ($server in (Get-Content s:\\servers.txt)) {
#skip blank lines
if (($server).length -gt 0)
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S:\\Servers.text is just a text file like this:
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Server1
Server2
DC1
Server3
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The ForEach loop reads the contents of the file, assigning the name to $server. I've added some code to catch blank lines that sometimes end up at the end of files like this. If the length of $server is greater than 0 than process the server. The code sample will echo the name to the console and then run the Get-WMIObject cmdlet passing $server as the computername. I found it helpful to call the Trim method as an extra space can confuse PowerShell.<\/p>\n

I'm not saying this is the only way to do something like this but it works for me.<\/p>\n

<\/font>PowerShell<\/a> Scripting<\/a> cmdlet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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