psexec and passing variables to the command line

[PnoT]

I'm trying to get this script to run a powershell command on a remote server so i can give executive admins in our company an easy way to setup anyone with out of office.

I believe I'm passing the input variables wrong at the end because i have verified the script launches the powershell.exe on the remote system.

The arguments for the powershell script are:

PowerShell.exe <pathToScript>\set-OOf.ps1 <Primary SMTP Address of User> OOf Message

(notice the ' ' on the last argument)

Here is my script so far...

$email = InputBox("Out of Office Tool", "Email address of employee?")

$message = InputBox("Out of Office Tool", "Message to be displayed in Out of Office Message?")

run("psexec \\servername -d -u username -p password -w c:\oofscript\ ""powershell.exe c:\oofscript\set-oof.ps1"" & $email & $message")

[Jos]

run("psexec \\servername -d -u username -p password -w c:\oofscript\ ""powershell.exe c:\oofscript\set-oof.ps1"" " & $email & " '"  & $message & "'")

Edited May 28, 2009 by Jos

[PnoT]

run("psexec \\servername -d -u username -p password -w c:\oofscript\ ""powershell.exe c:\oofscript\set-oof.ps1"" " & $email & " '"  & $message & "'")

I ran the code that you've posted but now the powershell.exe is not showing up on the remote server as a process anymore so it's acting like no execution is being done.

[Jos]

I didn't check your whole commandline before but it looks like you had a double quote at the wrong place. Try this version:

run("psexec \\servername -d -u username -p password -w c:\oofscript\powershell.exe ""c:\oofscript\set-oof.ps1"" " & $email & " '"  & $message & "'")

Edited May 28, 2009 by Jos

[Jos]

To check if the real command is looking correct you could also run something like this from SciTE:

Consolewrite("psexec \\servername -d -u username -p password -w c:\oofscript\powershell.exe ""c:\oofscript\set-oof.ps1"" " & $email & " '" & $message & "'")

ConsoleWrite(@crlf)

[PnoT]

I didn't check your whole commandline before but it looks like you had a double quote at the wrong place. Try this version:

run("psexec \\servername -d -u username -p password -w c:\oofscript\powershell.exe ""c:\oofscript\set-oof.ps1"" " & $email & " '"  & $message & "'")

That fixed things for me!

Thank you very much for the assistance and super quick response. You've gotta love a forum where a developer takes the time out of his/her busy schedule to lend a helping hand.