Running Silent Installers as Jobs with Powershell

Question

This works just fine:

Start-Job -Name notepadpp -ScriptBlock { c:\directory\install\npp.6.5.1.Installer.exe /S }

This however does NOT:

Start-Job -Name notepadpp -ScriptBlock { & "$using:pwd\install\npp.6.5.1.Installer.exe /S" }

What am I missing?

Answer 1

Start-Job -Name notepadpp -ScriptBlock { & "$($using:pwd)\install\npp.6.5.1.Installer.exe" /S }

Answer 2

It should probably be

Start-Job -Name notepadpp -ScriptBlock { & "$($using:pwd)\install\npp.6.5.1.Installer.exe /S" }