Ping a Range of IP Addresses using Windows PowerShell

Ping an IP range in the PowerShell, you can instantly determine if the IP addresses within a subnet are available and reachable on a windows machine. It also shows you which IPs are connected to a device und which device is currently online.

Launch start or press the Windowskey, then type powershell on the keyboard, select powershell app in the chooser.

Out from the opened PowerShell run the two lines one after each other with use copy and paste.

$ping = New-Object System.Net.Networkinformation.Ping
1..10 | % { $ping.send("192.168.10.$_") | where {$_.status -eq "Success"} | Select-Object Address,Status }

  IP range “1..10” Change the start (1) or end (10) to the IP range you want to ping on the network. Note that the last octet figure can’t exceed 255.

The command sends Ping to an IP range as ICMP echo request messages in the PowerShell. To all IPv4 addresses in this range and wait for echo replies. The output will look similar this.

If you get truncated output then use the command bellow.

10..100 | % { $ping.send("192.168.10.$_") | where {$_.status -eq "Success"} | Select-Object -Property Address,Status | Format-Table -AutoSize }

Remarks Ping Range in PowerShell

This PowerShell class provides functionality similar to the Ping.exe command line tool. The Ping class sends an Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo request message to a remote computer and wait for an ICMP echo reply message from that computer.

Conclusion

This post shows how you can easily ping scan IP subnet in PowerShell. Without using additional tools that have to be installed first.

To check the .NET Framework version with PowerShell on Windows 10 and Windows 11, follow these steps.

In this tutorial you show how to check the installed .NET Framework version by using PowerShell. Here we go, hit the key on your keyboard and typing “powershell”, right-click the top result and choose Run as administrator.

Check .NET Framework version in PowerShell

Paste the following line into PowerShell and hit the Enter key.

Get-ChildItem 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP' -Recurse | Get-ItemProperty -Name Version,Release -EA 0 | Where { $_.PSChildName -match '^(?!S)\p{L}'} | Select PSChildName, Version, Release

If you ran the command above, PowerShell will return the information for both the client and the full version of .NET Framework installed on Windows 10 or if you are already using Windows 11.

Enable .NET Framework 3.5 by using PowerShell

For a Windows Server 2012 or later installation that isn’t connected to the Internet, you can use PowerShell to add .NET Framework 3.5 and provide access to the \sources\sxs folder on the installation media. The \sources\sxs folder can be copied to network share (for example, \network\share\sxs) to make it easily accessible to multiple computers. The target computer account DOMAIN\SERVERNAME$ must have at least read access to the network share.

Start Windows PowerShell in the Administrator Command Prompt by typing.

powershell

To install .NET Framework 3.5 from installation media located on a network share, use the following command.

Install-WindowsFeature Net-Framework-Core -source \network\share\sxs

To verify installation, run the following command.

Get-WindowsFeature

Use .NET classes with PowerShell

The PowerShell itself was developed on the basis of the .NET Framework 2.0. In addition, all objects within PowerShell are based on the .NET object model and the classes from the .NET framework can also be used with basic functions, i.e. without the help of other tools.

This means that PowerShell users have access to an enormous function library that can be used to cover many use cases. However, in-depth knowledge of the .NET framework is absolutely necessary. This article shows basic access.

Static properties and methods can thus be called directly. There is no need to instantiate the class, i.e. to create an object.