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Brass Contributor

Oct 17, 2022

Replace psexec with native powershell commands

Hello, we have a remotely located ($remoteserver1) script that we want to run on the said remote computer ($remoteserver1) from a "controler" server (via a scheduled task). As of today in a C...

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LainRobertson

Silver Contributor

Oct 17, 2022

John_Dodo

Do you get anything printed out if you insert the following line before the actual Shutdown-VMGuest command in vmware.ps1?

Write-Host "Shutdown-VMGuest -VM $vmname -Confirm:`$false";

So, it'd look like this:

write-host "2a";
Write-Host "Shutdown-VMGuest -VM $vmname -Confirm:`$false";
Shutdown-VMGuest -VM $vmname -Confirm:$false;

Cheers,

Lain

John_Dodo

Brass Contributor

Oct 26, 2022

Hi Lain,

I would get the expected output form the write-host yes. Not sure what you try to demonstrate though. 🙂