start-process then wait until ping returns true

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Hi

I need something that will start a process then wait until ping is true

$ ‘C:\tmp\myVPN.exe’

do {$ping=test-connection -computer “myserver.domain.local” -quiet} until($ping)

#then do more stuff after above ping returns true.

but it halts after starting the software since the vpn doesn’t shut down (obviously)

how can I start the vpn in a seperate process? or whatever I need to do ?

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The Start-Process cmdlet will launch an executable in a separate process unless being told otherwise.

Get-Help Start-Process -Online

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Daniel is right. Use Start-Process here like this:

$process = Start-Process -FilePath 'C:\tmp\myVPN.exe' -PassThru

I’m putting the returned object in a variable, so that you can use it to do some checks on. Like this:

$process | Get-Process
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Thx guys… I actually did something else… I added ‘-asJob’ which seems to achieve the same thing… but I will definetely change to the above…