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John
John

Reputation: 281

Launch exe/bat on remote server with PowerShell (not copy content to my server)

I found the Invoke-Command cmdlet in PowerShell that supposedly is invoking a command on another server but this doesn't quite work. Instead what I get is the print of what the bat/exe. My exe is a console app and the bat was a test I did that launches the exe with start "" "myexe.exe".

This is the command I'm trying to do:

Invoke-Command -ComputerName 10.10.10.10 -ScriptBlock {
    'C:\Program Files\program.exe'
}

or

Invoke-Command -ComputerName 10.10.10.10 -ScriptBlock {
    'C:\Program Files\batch.bat'
}

In both cases instead of the command getting invoked on the other server I get the print on the server I call from.

Did I miss an argument somewhere? I want to launch the exe/bat on the remote server, not on the server I'm on.

EDIT

I made it work with this:

$command = "PathtoExe.exe"
$process = [WMICLASS]"\\10.10.10.10\ROOT\CIMV2:win32_process"
$result = $process.Create($command)

But now the exe is not displayed, it's like running in the background.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1248

Answers (2)

Guenther Schmitz
Guenther Schmitz

Reputation: 1999

I had the same pain trying to run "netsh.exe" on a remote host. Eventually got it working with the following code:

Invoke-Command -ComputerName 10.10.10.10 -ScriptBlock {Invoke-Expression "C:\Program Files\program.exe"}

Upvotes: -1

Maximilian Burszley
Maximilian Burszley

Reputation: 19674

Your problem is how you're trying to call the executable. In PowerShell, everything is an object. What you're doing is printing the String to the console instead of executing. To invoke the string, you need to use the call operator: &

Invoke-Command -ComputerName 10.10.10.10 -ScriptBlock {
    & 'C:\Program Files\batch.bat'
}

This will cause it to use the default program for that extension.

Upvotes: 2

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