Powershell's Invoke-Command not working when called from Windows Task Scheduler

Question

I have a Powershell script, which is working just fine, when called from command line, but only partially fine when executed by the Windows Task Scheduler. The script looks as follows:

# Do things, which are always working.
$session = new-pssession -computername SRV
Invoke-Command -session $session -scriptblock { D:\script.bat }
# Do things, which are always working.

The task defined in the Task Scheduler is completed without errors. As you see, all parts before and after Invoke-Command are working, also when called by the Task Scheduler. Only the Invoke-Command itself is only working when called from the command line.

My only guess is, that the Powershell script is exiting prematurely, but I didn't find any way to confirm this or even solve the issue.

Answer 1

it is likely to be a permissions issue - as a test, run the task using the same credentials as when it is run at the command line...

Answer 2

I had the same issue with Invoke-Command when I called a script from Task Scheduler to run certain scriptblocks on multiple computers. I don't know why, but setting the "Start in" folder of the action to the folder of the script solved it.