From the course: Learning Network Troubleshooting: Practical Network Diagnostics and Solutions
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PowerShell tools
From the course: Learning Network Troubleshooting: Practical Network Diagnostics and Solutions
PowerShell tools
- [Instructor] I'm on my Windows 11 computer, and let's take a look at some PowerShell tools that can also help with network troubleshooting. So I'm going to right-click on my start button, and I'll choose "Windows Terminal (Admin)" just to make sure I have all the rights I need to run any of the tools. And then, the terminal shows up, and you can see I'm in PowerShell because it shows "PS" on the left-hand side. So after clearing the screen, I'm going to type in the command that everybody knows, which would be just the "ping" command, and I'll try pinging out to a public IP address, you could also try pinging to a private address, although recall that only domain controllers have pinging turned on by default, so you'll be able to ping other computers, but they may not respond unless they're domain controllers, or if you go in and open up that firewall rule manually. So there's my ping, so now what I want to do is I want to use the PowerShell equivalent of "ping," and here's the…