Many times It happens that we need to check if a list of computers is active, so how do you ping multiple computers at once?

Use this Powershell script to test connectivity to your list of computers. it will produce two lists of Bad (unresponsive) and Good(Responsive) computers.

You need to change “D:\scripts\list.txt” to the path where your saved your computers list file(.txt).

Also, you can un-comment  #Write-Host $name… to view the list of computers with different colors Continue reading How to Ping a List of Computers →

Hi SysAdmins

In an earlier post I described – How to copy files to domain member computers or servers using Group Policy Object (GPO).

In this post I will show how to copy files to remote computers or servers using a simple Powershell script and .txt file.

All you need is:

A txt file that looks like this:

Server1.yourdomain.com
Server2.yourdomain.com
Server3.yourdomain.com
and so on…

You can use IP addresses as well.

And this piece of Powershell code:

[code lang=”powershell”]

$ServerList = Get-Content "C:\ServersList.txt" #Change this to location of servers list
$SourceFileLocation = #For example: D:\FoldertoCopy\ or D:\file.txt
$Destination = #Example: C$\temp

foreach ($_ in $ServerList)
{Copy-Item $SourceFileLocation -Destination \\$_\$Destination -Recurse -PassThru}

[/code]

Save the above code as CopyFilestoservers.ps1, and your servers list as ServersList.txt

You will need Write permissions on the remote machines to run the script successfully.