Vista - Prettyprinting stuff pulled from many computers

I needed to query the service state on an array containing a bunch of
computers.
While doing this is pretty easy in PS, I was still stumped when trying to
use Format-Table to output the result.

This is what I came up with. Hopefully it'll save someone else a headache

142> "localhost"|% { @{$_=get-wmiobject win32_service -filter
"name='sysmain'" -computer $_}}|ft
name,@{label="Service";expression={$_.value.name}},@{label="State";expression={$_.value.state}}

And it's one of those oneliners that'll make onlookers go wow too, once you
memorize it!

You can even make it shorter


PS > $computers="Server1","Server2","Server3"
PS > get-wmiobject win32_service -filter "name='alerter'" -computer $computers|
ft SystemName,Name ,state -a


SystemName Name state
---------- ---- -----
Server1 Alerter Stopped
Server2 Alerter Stopped
Server3 Alerter Stopped





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Shay Levi
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