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There seems to be a bit of cofusion about how Get-Random works.

Try this

1..10 | foreach {Get-Random}

you’ll get  randomly selected 32-bit unsigned integer between 0 (zero) and Int32.MaxValue (0x7FFFFFFF, 2,147,483,647).

The –Minimum parameter sets a minimum value – you will not get any values BELOW this

try this

1..10 | foreach {Get-Random -Minimum 1000}

The –Maximum parameter sets the ceiling on returned values – you will not get any values AT OR ABOVE this value

try this

1..10 | foreach {Get-Random -Maximum 1000}

used in conjunction they define a range of values from which a random value is chosen

try this

1..10 | foreach {Get-Random -Minimum 500 -Maximum 1000}