https://pwshtips.com/tags/poller/ Recent content in Poller on pwshtips Hugo en-us Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pwshtips.com/posts/debug-phantom-poller-outage/ Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pwshtips.com/posts/debug-phantom-poller-outage/ My laptop's background poller kept going 'offline' for 10–18 minutes at a time. I blamed Windows sleep, changed the power settings, and was completely wrong. Here's how the event log and a timestamped audit trail found the real culprit: a network stall.