You cannot add two hash tables like this.

Unless I am wrong, which is as likely as not, where is the wildcard?

Also, what version of PowerShell?

Earlier versions of Get-Service did not have -ComputerName as a parameter. Version 1.0 certainly didn't.

Or, perhaps, you could provide us with details of the error so we can help you.

If you added error handling (see here) then you could supply us with some more...

As someone who accepts all patches as soon as they are available, it sounds good to me.

As someone who relies on DBAs testing patches before releasing them into live, a...

I know a recruiter that ended up hating himself. He worked for an agency that every Friday everyone had to work standing up until they had placed someone. Of course,...

In what way does it "randomly fail"? What operation failed?

You're welcome. Glad you resolved it.

Thanks for posting the answer to your own question (it is amazing how many don't). I really appreciate it.

If you can please can you mark your answer as the solution...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (10/8/2014)

Probably, but I'm...

If you added error handling (see here) then you could supply us with some more detail.

I can't stand milk in my coffee but who here will throw stones??? Each to their own!!!

Sorry that I couldn't be more helpful.

SO many answers to that one.

We all get the same. Once I asked a recruiter if he...

Yep. As an industry we tend to be easily suckered. The irony is that we often fall for what we, as a collective, provide or offer which was in turn...