{"id":7721,"date":"2015-02-20T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/02\/20\/powertip-release-com-object-in-powershell\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:30:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:30:33","slug":"powertip-release-com-object-in-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-release-com-object-in-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Release COM Object in PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\"><\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Learn how to release a COM object in Windows PowerShell.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/3681.Q.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/3681.Q.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" \" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<span>How can I make sure that <span>a COM object<\/span>&nbsp;in m<\/span>y Windows PowerShell automation script releases?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/5684.A.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/5684.A.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" \" \/><\/a>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<b>ReleaseCOMObject<\/b>&nbsp;static method from the&nbsp;<b>Marshal<\/b>&nbsp;class, and then pass it to the variable <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;that holds the COM object, for example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">[System.Runtime.Interopservices.Marshal]::ReleaseComObject($doc) | Out-Null<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" \" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn how to release a COM object in Windows PowerShell.&nbsp; &nbsp;How can I make sure that a COM object&nbsp;in my Windows PowerShell automation script releases? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;ReleaseCOMObject&nbsp;static method from the&nbsp;Marshal&nbsp;class, and then pass it to the variable &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;that holds the COM object, for example: [System.Runtime.Interopservices.Marshal]::ReleaseComObject($doc) | Out-Null<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-7721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn how to release a COM object in Windows PowerShell.&nbsp; &nbsp;How can I make sure that a COM object&nbsp;in my Windows PowerShell automation script releases? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;ReleaseCOMObject&nbsp;static method from the&nbsp;Marshal&nbsp;class, and then pass it to the variable &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;that holds the COM object, for example: [System.Runtime.Interopservices.Marshal]::ReleaseComObject($doc) | Out-Null<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}