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Analyzing Networks With PowerShell

I often need to analyze networks and find machines and IP addresses . So today, I am going to share a set of four (4) very useful PowerShell functions that make it easy to analyze network segments - and they are pretty fast, too! This is the second part...

Published Wed, Mar 03 2011 4:16 AM by Tobias

Filed under: ping, Test-Connection, New-IPRange, Online, Background Job

Creating IP Ranges (and other type magic)

Recently I needed to create a range of IP addresses. No big deal, you think? Well, if it is just a small segment, then it *is* easy stuff: 1..255 | Foreach-Object { "192.168.2.$_" } But what if you need larger segments? Type Conversion Magic...

Published Sun, Feb 02 2011 11:20 PM by Tobias

Filed under: cast, ping, Convert, System.Net.IPAddress, System.Version, Test-Connection, HighLow, Significant Byte

Mastering PowerShell Incompatibilities

PowerShell does aim to be downwards compatible to the classic shell cmd.exe but compatibility is poor. Today, I'd like to look at some of the issues that prevent classic console commands from running correctly within PowerShell and ways to work around...

Published Wed, Nov 11 2008 5:22 AM by Tobias Weltner

Filed under: Dir, incompatible, backtick, Set, ping, environment variable, path, cmd.exe, Alias, escape

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