Progress Bar Tricks (Part 3)

PowerShell’s built-in progress bar can be nested, showing one progress bar per task. For this to work, assign distinct ID numbers to your progress bar:

$servers = 'dc-01', 'dc-02', 'msv3', 'msv4'
$ports = 80, 445, 5985

$servers | ForEach-Object {
    $server = $_
    Write-Progress -Activity 'Checking Servers' -Status $server -Id 1

    $ports | ForEach-Object {
        $port = $_
        Write-Progress -Activity 'Checking Port' -Status $port -Id 2

        # here would be your code that performs some task, i.e. a port test:
        Start-Sleep -Seconds 1
    }
}

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