PowerShell with Excel

MSerg

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Hello. I want to make a list of TCP hosts in an Excel book and test connection by Test-NetConnection. It looks as follow -
Dim a
Dim b As Boolean

Set a = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
b = a.Run("powershell TNC 192.168.26.10 -CommonTCPPort RDP -InformationLevel Quiet", 0, True)


it works, powershell runs, TNC works and returns True/False if port is opened or closed.
But! it doesn't return correct result to b. It always returnes FALSE if syntax is correct and TRUE if syntax is wrong.
It does not return the result of test connection. Whether the port is open or closed b is FALSE.

If anyone knows how to make TNC return the correct answer please tell me
 
The problem was the 'T' at the end of the command:
Command = "powershell TNC 192.168.26.10 -CommonTCPPort RDP -InformationLevel Quiet T"

The PowerShell error is "Test-NetConnection : A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument 'T'."

With the 'T' removed, the result of the command is correctly copied to the clipboard:
VBA Code:
    Command = "powershell TNC 192.168.26.10 -CommonTCPPort RDP -InformationLevel Quiet"
 
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Ahh, thank you kindly for looking into it for me. In my excitement(? haste?), I failed at the basic task of copy/paste" :)
 
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