{"id":1761,"date":"2014-03-24T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/03\/24\/powertip-use-powershell-to-check-if-computer-is-up\/"},"modified":"2014-03-24T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-check-if-computer-is-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-check-if-computer-is-up\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Check if Computer Is Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Summary<\/b>: &nbsp;Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to quickly check to see if a computer is up.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to see if a computer is up?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<b>Test-Connection<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet to send a ping (icmp packet) to the remote computer. <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; If you specify the&nbsp;<b>&ndash;Quiet<\/b>&nbsp;parameter, it returns only True or False.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:90px\">Test-Connection -BufferSize&nbsp;32 -Count 1 -ComputerName 192.168.0.41 -Quiet<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: &nbsp;Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to quickly check to see if a computer is up. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to see if a computer is up? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Test-Connection&nbsp;cmdlet to send a ping (icmp packet) to the remote computer. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; If you specify the&nbsp;&ndash;Quiet&nbsp;parameter, it returns only True [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":595,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-1761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: &nbsp;Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to quickly check to see if a computer is up. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to see if a computer is up? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Test-Connection&nbsp;cmdlet to send a ping (icmp packet) to the remote computer. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; If you specify the&nbsp;&ndash;Quiet&nbsp;parameter, it returns only True [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/595"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}