remote Powershell script Scheduled task

Question

I am having trouble running a Powershell script as a scheduled task. The script remotely logs into two Hyper-V hosts, queries the replication status and emails the result back to me. The script works fine when I run it manually, either in Powershell ISE or by running the script directly, however when I run it as a scheduled task the task gets stuck in a running state and I never get a result.

I've checked my scheduled task setup is working correctly by replacing the script with one that simply writes a text file to a local folder so it's not that. I'm also logged in as the same user as the task runs under when I manually run the script so it's no that, what am I missing?

Here's my script:

$array = @("host1.domain.com", "host2.domain.com") for ($i=0; $i -lt $array.length; $i++) { $pass = cat C:\Scripts\Creds.txt | convertto-securestring $mycred = new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist "username",$pass Invoke-Command -ComputerName $array[$i] -Credential $mycred -FilePath "C:\Scripts\Check_VMReplication.ps1" } 

The script calls another script in the same folder:

$hstname = Hostname $Replication = Get-VMReplication $MessageFail = $hstname + ' Replication Alert' $SmtpServer = 'smtp.server.com' hostname > C:\Scripts\iveremoted.txt for ($i=0; $i -lt $Replication.length; $i++) { $MessageBody = $hstname+ " has reported a replication status of " + $Replication.health[$i] + ' for server ' + $Replication.name[$i] $FailMessageSubject = $Replication.name[$i] + " Replication Alert" if ($Replication.health[$i] -ne 'Normal') { send-mailmessage -to "[email protected]>" -from '[email protected]' -subject $MessageFail -body $MessageBody -smtpServer $SmtpServer } else{ send-mailmessage -to "[email protected]" -from '[email protected]' -subject 'Everything's OK' -body $MessageBody -smtpServer $SmtpServer } } 

The script appears not to be able to log on because the iveremoted.txt file doesn't get written to the remote machine.

Any idea on what I might have missed?

Answer 1

I'm not sure why, but if I run the Check_VMReplication.ps1 code using

Invoke-Command -Credential $mycred -ScriptBlock {CODE GOES HERE} 

instead of a second script file it runs fine. I guess I'll just have to do it that way.