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dmarquesgn
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Jul 25, 2022

Running remote script to write in file share

Hi, I'm building a script for checking, downloading and installing updates on Windows Servers, using the PSWindowsUpdate module. My goal is to go to one server a time, check for updates and write a...
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farismalaeb
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dmarquesgn 

Hi
I assume that the user have the correct permission to perform the required action.
Try the following code

$Cred=Get-Credential
Invoke-Command -ComputerName Server1 -ScriptBlock {New-PSDrive -Root '\\FileServer.FQDN.local\MyShare' -PSProvider FileSystem -Name X -Credential $Using:Cred -Persist;Set-Content -Path 'X:\myfile.txt' -Value 'www2w111'}
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dmarquesgn
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Jul 26, 2022

farismalaeb 

Hi,
Thanks. I have the permissions, as I'm using a domain admin for the testing.
I tried your code and it works, but I have some issues. I replaced a part of the code to acomplish my objective. It's like this right now:

$Cred=Get-Credential
Invoke-Command -ComputerName servername -ScriptBlock {New-PSDrive -Root '\\share_ip\WindowsUpdateLogs' -PSProvider FileSystem -Name X -Credential $Using:Cred -Persist; (Get-WUList).GetEnumerator() | Export-Csv -Path "X:\$(hostname)-$(get-date -f dd-MM-yyyy)-WindowsUpdate.log" }

But this works once and then if I try to run it a next time on the same server or a different server I get this error message:

A specified logon session does not exist. It may already have been terminated
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (X:PSDriveInfo) [New-PSDrive], Win32Exception
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CouldNotMapNetworkDrive,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.NewPSDriveCommand
+ PSComputerName : servername

 

If I leave it for 1h and back for testing, it works again once. So there's something with the expiration of the session which I'm not understanding.

Also, I need to insert this into a cycle to fetch the updates on each server. But if this is running just once, I can't insert it on a cycle.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

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