Powershell remoting and page file

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();


        }
    }
}