Powershell remoting and page file - powershell

Question

I wrote a powershell script that connects to a remote machine with the intent of executing a software rollout on said machine. Basically it connects, maps a drive, copies the rollout from the mapped drive to the target machine, then executes a perl script to install the rollout. If I do those steps manually everything works fine. When I try using my script, the perl script fails on the remote machine saying, "The paging file is too small for this operation to complete".
Can someone explain the considerations I need to take into account when operating remotely? I've tried monitoring memory usage and I don't see anything out of the ordinary. Is the page file OS wide or is there some type of per user configuration my script should be setting when it connects?
I can post snippets of my script if needed, but the script is 426 lines so I think it would be overwhelming to post in its entirety.

Answer 1

I found that the remote shells are managed differently than logging onto the box and executing a powershell session. I had to increase the maximum amount of memory available using one of the commands below:
Set-Item WSMan:\localhost\Shell\MaxMemoryPerShellMB 1024
winrm set winrm/config #{MaxMemoryPerShellMB="1024"}
The default is 150MB which didn't cut it in my case. I can't say that I recommend 1GB, I'm just a developer. I tried upping it until I found what worked for me.

Answer 2

I tried this code to run the puppet client as an administrator but the framework still complains with "Access Denied"
Exe (C:\Users\lmo0\AppData\Local\Temp\Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Setup_4.0.30319\Windows6.1-KB958488-v6001-x64.msu) failed with 0x5 - Access is denied. .
using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
namespace RunAsAdmin
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Process proc = new Process();
Process p = new Process();
p.StartInfo.FileName = #"powershell.exe";
p.StartInfo.Arguments = #"invoke-command -computername vavt-pmo-sbx24 -ScriptBlock {&'C:\Program Files (x86)\Puppet Labs\Puppet\bin\puppet.bat' agent --test --no-daemonize --verbose --logdest console}";
p.StartInfo.Verb = "runas";
p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
p.StartInfo.WindowStyle = System.Diagnostics.ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;
p.Start();
while (p.HasExited == false) {
Console.WriteLine(p.StandardOutput.ReadLine());
}
Console.ReadLine();
p.WaitForExit();
p.Close();
}
}
}