Run PowerShell scripts on remote PC
I have installed PS 1.0 on a remote PC(RPC001). I used Windows Sysinternals tool PSExec.exe to execute the following process on the remote:
PSExec \\RPC001 -u myID -p myPWD PowerShell C:\script\StartPS.ps1 par1 par2
I can see the PowerShell.exe process running on the remote PC afterwards, but it is actually doing nothing, just hanging there. I tried to put a simple code of "Write-Output/Host" a string in the script. I run the same script on the remote by RTS, it works there.
Not sure if I miss anything else to run the script by using PSExec, or it is PSExec.exe limitation. I would like to start a PS script on remote to do something there locally (compress some files locally and remove old files) from my box.
I asked a similar question in Stackoverflow: Run remote process by powershell. Don suggested me to use PSExec. It sounds like an alternative way to solve the issue. However, I cannot get it working with PowerShell. Any way to get PS working on remote PC?
By the way, I cannot use PS 2.0 since my network does not allow me to install Windows XP SP3, which is required for PS 2.0.
Answer
The accepted answer didn't work for me but the following did:
>PsExec.exe \\<SERVER FQDN> -u <DOMAIN\USER> -p <PASSWORD> /accepteula cmd
/c "powershell -noninteractive -command gci c:\"
Example from here