Using the below code in a PowerShell window:
$User = 'testuser1'
$Password = 'Pa$$w0rd' | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force
$Credential = New-Object PSCredential -ArgumentList $User, $Password
Start-Process powershell -Credential $Credential
This works fine, but the PowerShell instance is not in elevated administrator mode. I tried:
$Arguments = "Start-Process powershell -Verb -RunAs"
Start-Process powershell -Credential $Credential -ArgumentList $Arguments
This opens a PowerShell instance, but it closes immediately.
How can I stop the new, elevated PowerShell instance closing?
$Arguments = "Start-Process powershell -Verb RunAs"
Start-Process powershell -Credential $Credential -ArgumentList $Arguments
RunAs is not a parameter but value :)
If you correct this, you will be able to run Powershell console properly.
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I try to execute my simple vbscript on the remote session using PowerShell. The script does not have any error and run successfully, but I notified the code not executed in remote session. is there any way how to solve this?
$session=New-PSSession -ComputerName "192.XXX.XX.XX" -Credential (New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential("UserName",(ConvertTo-SecureString "Password" -AsPlainText -Force)))
$status= Invoke-Command -Session $session -ScriptBlock{
& cscript "C:\Data\test.vbs"
}
Use Start-Process to execute cscript from PowerShell using cscript with the C:\Data\test.vbs parameter as in the answer example below. You can optionally use the -wait parameter of Start-Process in case it helps in your particular case.
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$session = New-PSSession -ComputerName "192.XXX.XX.XX" -Credential (New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential("UserName",(ConvertTo-SecureString "Password" -AsPlainText -Force)))
$status = Invoke-Command -Session $session -ScriptBlock {
Start-Process C:\Windows\System32\cscript.exe "C:\Data\test.vbs" -Wait;
};
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I want to set registry keys in a PowerShell script but the script has to be executed as the logged in User and only the part where registry keys are set need to run with administrator privileges.
This is what i got yet, unfortunately it is not working:
#Run ScriptBlock as admin
$username = ".\admin"
$password = ConvertTo-SecureString "adminpassword" -AsPlainText -Force
$credential = [pscredential]::new($username,$password)
Start-Process -WindowStyle Hidden -FilePath "powershell" -Credential $credential - ArgumentList '-noprofile -command &{$ScriptBlock -verb runas}'
Is there a better way to do it? I'm really new into scripting.
Thanks a lot!
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I have a script which installs the chrome to a remote machine
#Script : Test01.ps1
Start-Process D:\Chrome\Chrome.exe -wait -verb runas
write-host "Chrome is installed"
and I am executing the above script using :
Invoke-Command -ComputerName MySystem18 -FilePath D:\Test01.ps1 -ArgumentList Process
The above script is working on local system (MySystem03) and remote machine (MySystem18).
But when I am executing this in MySystem18 it is not showing up the acknowledgement or cursor after the installation of chrome, even after successful installation of chrome on MySystem18.
Can you tell me how to fix it.
D:\Chrome\Chrome.exe is a path on your remote computer ? If not, try to share a dir with Chrome.exe named yourdirshared on your mysystem03 and replace by \\mysystem03\yourdirshared\Chrome.exe into your ps1
if always doesnt work, you can try to remove -wait my be...
if always doesnt work, are you try to specify credentil parameter?
$Username = 'username'
$Password = 'yourpassword
$pass = ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText $Password -Force
$Cred = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -ArgumentList $Username,$pass
Invoke-Command -ComputerName "MySystem18" -Credential $Cred -ScriptBlock {Start-Process D:\Chrome\Chrome.exe -wait -verb runas; write-host "Chrome is installed" }
I have a GUI that has been created with PowerShell Studio and exported as a PS1-file. I'm now trying to launch this GUI by calling it with another user's credentials.
When I run the code it doesn't even give an error message. PowerShell pops-up and closes again in seconds and nothing is launched. Follwoing this thread, I think I followed the correct syntax.
$Script = 'S:\Prod\Script center\GUI Script.ps1'
$Credentials = Get-Credential
$powershellArguments = "-file '$Script'", "-noexit", "-verb runas"
Start-Process powershell -Credential $Credentials -ArgumentList $powershellArguments
These ones doesn't work either:
Start-Process powershell -Credential $Credentials -ArgumentList "-noprofile -command &{Start-Process powershell -verb runas -File 'S:\Prod\Script center\GUI Script.ps1'}"
Start-Process powershell -Credential $Credentials -ArgumentList "-noprofile -command &{Start-Process $script -verb runas}"
And this one is asking me the credentials, although they are already saved in the variable $Credentials. However, the powershell console launched is not launched as the user in the Credentials :(
$cmd = 'powershell.exe'
$arguments = "-NoExit", "-NoProfile", "-WindowStyle Maximized", '-NoLogo', "Credential $Credentials", "File '$script'"
Start-Process $cmd -ArgumentList $arguments -Verb runAs
I'm sure it's not related to the GUI script, because this works perfectly fine:
& 'S:\Prod\Script center\GUI Script.ps1'
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Maybe your error is only on argument single quotes $powershellArguments = "-file '$Script'"; double quotes should be used.
Start-Process -FilePath "powershell" -Credential $cred -ArgumentList #("-file 'cred.ps1'") # doesn't work
Start-Process -FilePath "powershell" -Credential $cred -ArgumentList #("-file ""cred.ps1""") # works
what I'm trying to do is add a user to the local admin group then launch a program with those credentials. I have the first part working:
$env:COMPUTERNAME
$srvgroup = [ADSI]("WinNT://"+$env:COMPUTERNAME+"/Administrators, Group")
$srvgroup.name
$srvgroup.add("WinNT://userID,user")
$srvgroup.Invoke("Members") | foreach {$_.GetType().InvokeMember("Name", 'GetProperty', $null, $_, $null)}
The second part is what I can't seem to get working correctly.
Start-Process runas.exe -Credential DOMAIN\user -ArgumentList '-noprofile -command & "C:\Program Files (x86)\Misc\SecureClient" -verb runas}'
I don't get an error message but the program does not start. I should get a popup window for the application but nothing happens when I try it this way.
Any ideas?
DOMAIN\user is not a full credential. You need to do something like this:
$passwd = ConvertTo-SecureString "opensesame" -Force -AsPlainText
$cred = new-object pscredential 'Domain\user',$passwd
Start-Process -Credential $cred ...
I ended up doing it like, don't really like it but it works:
start-process "cmd.exe" "/c D:\Scripts\client_connect.cmd"
that .cmd file is:
C:\Windows\System32\runas.exe /savecred /user:domain\username"C:\Program Files (x86)\xxx\xxx\sclient.cmd"