<# .Description This script checks if the given port has been placed in a excluded port range. This script utilizes the netsh command and only observes TCP exclusion ranges. #> param ( [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)] [Int32] $targetPort ) # Filters excluded port range output to just the ports $rawPortRanges = netsh interface ipv4 show excludedportrange protocol=tcp | Select-String "\d+\s+\d+" # Cleans the output to include just start/end port with a single space $cleanPortRanges = $rawPortRanges -replace "\s+(\d+)\s+(\d+).*", '$1 $2' $found = $false $cleanPortRanges | % { # Break apart the port, intrepret as int $start, $end = $_.toString().split(' ') $start = $start -as [int] $end = $end -as [int] # Complete the check if ($targetPort -In $start..$end) { $found = $true Write-Host "${start} - ${end}" Write-Host "`tPort ${targetPort} is in an excluded port range." Break # Assumption: Excluded port ranges do not overlap } } # Default output if (!$found) { Write-Host "Port ${targetPort} is not in an excluded port range." }