powershell wait for command to finish before proceeding - powershell

Question

In powershell I am trying to do the following:
$name = "computername"
#get installed programs
Write-Host "****APPLICATIONS"
gwmi win32_Product -ComputerName $name | select name
#gets services
write-host "****SERVICES"
Get-Service -ComputerName $name | ft
the expected output would be
****APPLICATIONS
name
of
app
****SERVICES
running services here
more services here
the actual result is
****APPLICATIONS
****SERVICES
name
of
app
running services here
more services here
I have attempted to do start-job then wait-job , but running gwmi as a job seems to output nothing to the console and sending the output to a separate file defeats the purpose of other parts of the script
I also attempted to use start-sleep and it still finishes both write-host commands before proceeding

Answer 1

Try this:
$name = "computername"
Write-Host "`n****APPLICATIONS`n"
gwmi win32_Product -ComputerName $name | % {$_.name}
write-host "`n****SERVICES"
Get-Service -ComputerName $name | ft
If you want the results alphabetical:
$name = "computername"
Write-Host "`n****APPLICATIONS`n"
$apps = gwmi win32_Product -ComputerName $name | % {$_.name}
$apps | sort
write-host "`n****SERVICES"
Get-Service -ComputerName $name | ft

Answer 2

Param(
$ComputerName = 'AT805061'
)
# Get installed programs
Write-Host "`n****APPLICATIONS`n"
Get-WmiObject win32_Product -ComputerName $ComputerName | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Name | Sort-Object
# Get services
Write-Host "`n****SERVICES`n"
Get-Service -ComputerName $ComputerName | Where-Object -Property Status -eq -Value Running | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Name | Sort-Object