Powershell doesn’t come with telnet by default, however you can use the following command to quickly connect to a TCP server in a Powershell window.
This can be used to quickly check if a certain IP address / port is reachable (such as port 80 for HTTP).
Open up a Powershell window and enter the following command:
New-Object System.Net.Sockets.TcpClient("google.com", 80)
If the TCP connection is succesful, you should see the following output:
Client : System.Net.Sockets.Socket Available : 0 Connected : True ExclusiveAddressUse : False ReceiveBufferSize : 65536 SendBufferSize : 64512 ReceiveTimeout : 0 SendTimeout : 0 LingerState : System.Net.Sockets.LingerOption NoDelay : False
If you do not see anything or the screen hangs, it most likely indicates a timeout.
Note: you cannot send any commands over the TCP connection this way (for that you would need to create a Powershell script). However for quick connect tests this method is sufficient.
