Restart-Computer and Display computer name

PowerShell Help
1

I need assistance with trying to display the computername of each server that was restarted using the command below. I believe this entails using the variable “$env:computername” but I’m unsure of the proper syntax.

 

Restart-Computer -computername $serverlist -force -confirm

 

Thanks

Ron

 

2

Putting -Verbose will show the message in console and you can even redirect the verbose stream to a file or to output stream.

Restart-Computer -computername $serverlist -force -confirm -Verbose

Or you can execute this as jobs and get the name from the child jobs created.

$Job = Restart-Computer -computername $serverlist -force -confirm -AsJob
$Job.ChildJobs.Location
3

If you want to add some error handling, you can see if any computers had an issue.

foreach ($Computer in $serverlist) {
    Try {
        Restart-Computer -ComputerName $Computer -Force -Confirm:$false -ErrorAction Stop
        Write-Output "$Computer was restarted"
    }
    Catch {
        Write-Error $_
    }
}
4

Thanks!

5

Thanks for your help!