{"id":4711,"date":"2012-11-07T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2012\/11\/07\/powertip-run-a-powershell-command-on-multiple-servers-at-the-same-time\/"},"modified":"2012-11-07T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-run-a-powershell-command-on-multiple-servers-at-the-same-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-run-a-powershell-command-on-multiple-servers-at-the-same-time\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Run a PowerShell Command on Multiple Servers at the Same Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong>&nbsp; Run a Windows PowerShell cmdlet on multiple servers at the same time.<\/p>\n<p><strong><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;<\/strong>How can I run a Windows PowerShell cmdlet on multiple servers at the same time?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<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;To run a Windows PowerShell cmdlet on multiple servers at the same time use the&nbsp;<strong>New-PSSession<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet and save the returned session object in a variable. Now use the&nbsp;<strong>Invoke-Command<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet with the session object to run the command. Use the&nbsp;<strong>ScriptBlock<\/strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em>parameter to specify the cmdlet to run.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">$session = New-PSSession -cn dc2,dc3 -cred iammred\\administrator<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">Invoke-Command -Session $session -ScriptBlock {get-date}<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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; Run a Windows PowerShell cmdlet on multiple servers at the same time. &nbsp;How can I run a Windows PowerShell cmdlet on multiple servers at the same time? &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To run a Windows PowerShell cmdlet on multiple servers at the same time use the&nbsp;New-PSSession&nbsp;cmdlet and save the returned session object [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"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-4711","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; Run a Windows PowerShell cmdlet on multiple servers at the same time. &nbsp;How can I run a Windows PowerShell cmdlet on multiple servers at the same time? &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To run a Windows PowerShell cmdlet on multiple servers at the same time use the&nbsp;New-PSSession&nbsp;cmdlet and save the returned session object [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4711","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\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4711\/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=4711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}