Running PowerShell command from VB (or C#) on multiple machines - how to know which computer is returning infomation

Question

I am running code as per simple example below, in reality it will be a lot more machines, how do I know which machine each set of results is from?

I read mention of PSComputerName, but how do I get the value from this as the usual way of getting a value e.g. how I get the Name in this example below for Get-Culture doesn't work

Thanks

Dim computerlist As New List(Of String)({"PC1", "PC2", "PC3"})

Dim powershell As PowerShell = PowerShell.Create()
Dim command As New PSCommand()

command.AddCommand("Invoke-Command")
command.AddParameter("ComputerName", computerlist)
command.AddParameter("ScriptBlock", ScriptBlock.Create("Get-Culture"))

powershell.Commands = command

Dim results = powershell.Invoke()

TextBox1.AppendText(results(0).BaseObject.Name)

Answer 1

Hi,

PSComputerName is a NoteProperty. Does this work for you?

results(0).Properties("PSComputerName").Value  

Best Regards，
Ian Xue

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Answer 2

How about something like this?

command.AddParameter("ScriptBlock", ScriptBlock.Create("'{0},{1},{2},{3}' -f $env:COMPUTERNAME, (Get-Culture).LCID,(Get-Culture).Name,(Get-Culture).DisplayName"))

Results should look like this

PS C:\> '{0},{1},{2},{3}' -f $env:COMPUTERNAME, (Get-Culture).LCID,(Get-Culture).Name,(Get-Culture).DisplayName
SLICK,1033,en-US,English (United States)