Powershell Script triggered by Task Scheduler not executing Conditional Logic - powershell

Question

I have a basic PowerShell (v4) script running on Server 2012. I decided to have Task Scheduler task it. Task scheduler instance is running as domain and machine administrator, Runs whether the user is logged on or not and runs with Highest Privileges. It's configured for Windows Server 2012 R2.
It starts a program of "Powershell" and this is my argument: "-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -file F:\AdMgmt\scripts\newcheckandcopy.ps1"
The problem: It executes some of the script just fine - however, I have an "If/Else" statement that it ignores. I've tried this with two scripts now and the Task scheduler always executes fine, but doesn't handle the If/Else stuff - it just skips over it and runs everything else.
This is the text of the script (it runs perfectly from the powershell console when logged in as the same account that runs the task):
$path = 'Q:\'
$stats = 0
$msg = ''
$days = 1
$hours = 0
$mins = 0
$logtime = Get-Date -uFormat "%y%m%d%H%M"
$files = #(Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Path $path -Include '*.*' | ?{ $_.LastWriteTime -lt (Get-Date).AddDays(-$days).AddHours(-$hours).AddMinutes(-$minutes) -and $_.psIsContainer -eq $false})
if ($files -ne $null) {
$f_names = [System.String]::Join('|',$files)
$msg = 'Message: ' + $f_names
$stats = $files.Count
Send-MailMessage -to "domain#test.com" -from "domain#test.com" -subject "FileMaker Files older than 1 Day" -body $msg -smtpserver "smtp-relay.test.com"
} else {
$msg = 'Message: 0 files exceed defined age'
Send-MailMessage -to "domain#test.com" -from "domain#test.com" -subject "FileMaker Files OK" -body $msg -smtpserver "smtp-relay.test.com"
}
Copy-Item Q:\* F:\admgmt\ -recurse
Add-Content f:\admgmt\logs\checkandcopy.txt $logtime
Write-Host $msg
Write-Host "Statistic: $stats"

Answer 1

I'm guessing your issue is you are running the script outside of user context. the Q:\ drive would not be available to it. PowerShell supports UNC paths so you might be able to substitute the actual path that Q:\ points to.