Restart machine using powershell script

Question

I am running the below code but the restart is not working. My intention was to run restart command parallelly on all remote machines at once.

$YourFile = gc "machinelst.txt"
$username = "user1"
$password = "pass1"
$secpw = ConvertTo-SecureString $password -AsPlainText -Force
$cred  = New-Object Management.Automation.PSCredential ($username, $secpw)

foreach ($computer in $YourFile)
{
    Invoke-Command -ComputerName $computer -credential $cred -ErrorAction Stop -ScriptBlock { Restart-Computer -ComputerName $computer -Force } -AsJob
     
} 

Answer 1

try this (you will can add -asjob if it's work) :

$username = "yourdomain\user1"
$password = ConvertTo-SecureString "pass1" -AsPlainText -Force
$cred = new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist $username, $password

get-content "machinelst.txt" | %{
Restart-Computer -ComputerName $_ -Authentication default -Credential $cred

}

if you want use job, you can do it :

$listjob=@()

get-content "machinelst.txt" | %{
$listjob+=Restart-Computer -ComputerName $_ -Authentication default -Credential $cred -AsJob
}

$listjob | Wait-Job -Timeout 30

$listjob | %{

    if ($_.State -eq 'Failed' )
    {
      Receive-Job -Job $_ -Keep
    }
   
}