Version 2 vs CTP3 – Test-connection

Interesting little discovery.  Working an a new Windows2008 R2 Server I started working with the test-connection cmdlet.  After testing some code I was ready to reduce some lines of code in some production scripts.  I quickly found out that test-connection <machine name> –quiet doesn’t work.  This would have helped because in current scripts there is an elaborate use of ping and reading the results which with Powershell V2 can be replaced with:

if (test-connection <machine name or ip> -quiet){ 

    # Some code here } 

Else {"Can not contact target machine"}

Well I will have to put this in the snippet library and put it into action when the full version 2 is available for XP.