So in my last post, I shared a PowerShell script that enables you to enable devices to wake up computers. This script relies solely on a WMI interface, but despite the remote nature of WMI, I had provided no method of entering a remote computer name. That changes with the release of my first ever formal PowerShell module! I’ve taken the code from the “enable device wake” script and adapted it to a PowerShell advanced function. I also added the cmdlet binding attribute to it, which makes it an official script cmdlet.

This command more or less replaces the functionality that powercfg.exe -DeviceEnableWake offers.

It has full support for:

• Script example documentation
• Named and positional parameters
• Supports -WhatIf and -Confirm common parameters
• Configuring remote computers

Download Set-DeviceWake v1.0

Output

Here is an example screenshot of the script’s execution. Please let me know if you have any feedback in the comments or at pcgeek86@gmail.com! As I said before, this is the first PowerShell module that I’ve shared, and I want to make sure it’s done right!

Running on Multiple Computers

(Updated on 2010-09-28)

So, you might be wondering how you can deploy this to multiple computers. The ComputerName parameter only takes a single computer name, rather than an array. You basically have three options here:

1. Run from management workstation: Wrap the Set-DeviceWake function in a foreach loop, and pipe a text file with a bunch of computer names into the ForEach-Object
2. Run from management workstation: Wrap the Set-DeviceWake function with Start-Job and a list of computer names
3. Run on each PC individually: Deploy the script to target workstations via GPO (if they’re Windows 7), or deploy via systems management software, such as ConfigMgr

I don’t have examples handy just yet, but just thought I’d share this information at least!