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I was recently creating some health check tests that would use both the Get-CimInstance and Invoke-Command cmdlets. These use the Windows Remote Management (WinRM) protocol. To make the process more efficient I added a function that first tests that WinRM is enabled and healthy on the remote host using the Test-WSMan cmdlet.

That was working well until I hit a couple of unhealthy machines and received a response from Test-WSMan that provided misleading information. Just by using the basic command line with no other parameters gave me a positive response.

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