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up vote 15 down vote favorite 1 I am trying to see if a process is running on multiple servers and then format it into a table. get-process -ComputerName server1,server2,server3 -name explorer | Select-Object processname,machinename Thats the easy part - When the process does not exist or if the server is unavailable, powershell outputs a big ugly error, messes up the the table and doesn't continue. Example Get-Process : Couldn't connect to remote machine.At line:1 char:12 on error resume next vba + get-process <<<< -ComputerName server1,server2,server3 -name explorer | format-table processname,machinename + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Get-Process], InvalidOperatio nException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.InvalidOperationException,Microsoft.Power Shell.Commands.GetProcessCommand How do I get around this? If the I would still like to get notified if the process isn't available or Running. powershell share|improve this question edited Nov 30 '11 at 9:51 Roman 3,2241328 asked Nov 30 '11 at 8:32 Jake 1,11831633 add a comment| 2 Answers 2 active oldest votes up vote 14 down vote Add -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue to your command. When it is not an error but an unhandled exception, you should add -EV Err -EA "SilentlyContinue" In order to catch the exception. (EA is an alias for ErrorAction) You can then evaluate the error in your script by having a look at $Err[0] share|improve this answer edited Nov 30 '11 at 12:02 answered Nov 30 '11 at 9:53 Bart De Vos 14k34473 I'm afraid that doesnt work unless I'm sticking it in the wrong place. get-process -ComputerName server1, server2, server3 -name explorer -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Select-Object processname,machinename –Jake Nov 30 '11 at 11:53 Add it to get-process or take a look at my updated answer above. –Bart De Vos Nov 30 '11 at 12:04 add a comment| up vote 0 down vote Short answer: Add $ErrorActionPreference = 'Continue' at the start of your code so you d

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Scripting > The Official Scripting Guys Forum! Question 0 Sign on error resume next qtp in to vote I posted this question over at the technet powershell forum too (http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverpowershell/thread/ab0363eb-5803-47be-a724-8e68e0c56e7a). I received on error resume next vbscript example a couple of suggestions but so far nothing that explains why it is happening or what is wrong with my Try-Catch structure. From the other forum: I http://serverfault.com/questions/336121/how-to-ignore-an-error-in-powershell-and-let-it-continue am trying to find all the subfolders where the path is too long or access has been denied. I wrote the script below and when it encounter an error, the catch works, but the script exits out of the ForEach-Object loop and finishes. The folder listed in the script has over 50,000 subfolders but stops https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/scriptcenter/en-US/e9ee76cd-3446-4507-b9e7-60863550fa00/powershell-trycatch-not-continuing-after-error?forum=ITCG on the 451st folder when it catches that error. I feel like something is wrong with my Try-Catch structure that I am not understanding. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. $RootFolder = "S:\Procurement_Section\" $ErrorLog = "X:\Scripts\CountFolders\countfolders.log" $ifolders = 0 cls If (Test-Path $RootFolder){ Try { $ErrorActionPreference = "Stop" Get-ChildItem $RootFolder -recurse -Force | where{$_.psiscontainer} | ForEach-Object { $ifolders ++ Write-Progress -Activity "Counting Folders" -Status "Counting" -CurrentOperation "Count: $ifolders - Name: $_.Fullname" } } Catch { $DateTime = (Get-Date).ToShortDateString() + " " + (Get-Date).ToShortTimeString() $Target = $_.TargetObject $e = $_ Add-Content -Path $ErrorLog -Value "$DateTime - $e $Target" Write-Host "$e $Target" $ErrorActionPreference = "Continue" } } Else{ Write-Host "Path not found: $RootFolder." } Write-Host "`nScript complete." Write-Host "Folder: $RootFolder" Write-Host "Number of SubFolders: $ifolders`n" Output: The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The fully qualified file name must be less than 260 characters, and the directory name must be less than 248 characters. S:\Procurement_Section\[...big long nasty path...] Script complete. F

most powerful tool in your arsenal is the exception trap, I'm sure, but it's a bit complicated and I can't claim to be a master of PowerShell exceptions, but I'll go over that too. We'll start off with something you'll use a lot more http://tasteofpowershell.blogspot.com/2008/07/handling-errors-in-powershell.html though, even though you may not know it.$ErrorActionPreferencePowerShell has a number of Preference Variables that you can use to determine the way it behaves. If you have the v2 CTP version installed then you can run 'help about_Preference_Variables' to see the list, but for the rest of us use the link above. $ErrorActionPreference sets the way PowerShell will respond when hitting a non-terminatingerror. This won't affect errors that terminate a script. The allowable values for $ErrorActionPreference are 'Continue' (default), 'SilentlyContinue', 'Inquire', and 'Stop'.Which errors are error resume terminating and which aren't? Well there's no definitive list, but take this example to show you how it works:PS HKLM:\> dir Hive: Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESKC VC Name Property--- -- ---- --------7 4 COMPONENTS {StoreFormatVersion, StoreArchitecture, PublisherPolicyChangeTime, LastScavengeCookie}4 0 HARDWARE error resume next {}1 0 SAM {}Get-ChildItem : Requested registry access is not allowed.At line:1 char:3+ dir <<<<17 0 SOFTWARE {}9 0 SYSTEM {}______________________________________________________PS HKLM:\> $ErrorActionPreference = 'SilentlyContinue'PS HKLM:\> dir Hive: Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESKC VC Name Property--- -- ---- --------7 4 COMPONENTS {StoreFormatVersion, StoreArchitecture, PublisherPolicyChangeTime, LastScavengeCookie}4 0 HARDWARE {}1 0 SAM {}17 0 SOFTWARE {}9 0 SYSTEM {}______________________________________________________PS HKLM:\> $ErrorActionPreference = 'Inquire'PS HKLM:\> dir Hive: Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESKC VC Name Property--- -- ---- --------7 4 COMPONENTS {StoreFormatVersion, StoreArchitecture, PublisherPolicyChangeTime, LastScavengeCookie}4 0 HARDWARE {}1