Copy a file to remote computers

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Hi

I am trying to copy a file to 180 computers in the network. I am using admin powershell prompt to execute the following code.

$computers = gc "C:\scripts\OBSVDIs.txt"
$source = "C:\Scripts\<filename>.csv"
$destination = "C$\<input path>"
foreach ($computer in $computers) {Copy-Item $source -Destination "\\$computer\$destination" -Recurse}

Copy-Item : The network path was not found
At line:1 char:36
+ ... computers) {Copy-Item $source -Destination "\\$computer\$destination" ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Copy-Item], IOException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.IO.IOException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.CopyItemCommand

When I tried with single computer name in the C:\scripts\OBSVDIs.txt file, it worked. Not sure what is making difference when I use all 180 computers list in the file.

Any suggestion is greatly appreciated.

 

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Make sure there are no leading or trailing spaces in the text file, its always good to trim $computer.trim() when reading computer names from a txt file.