Hi, I have a powershell script, that I created in word, which opens O365 and gets mailbox sizes etc automatically, then closes. To run it, I normally copy the text into powershell straight from Notepad, and it all works as expected. I thought I’d change it to a .ps1 extension, and just pull it dir…

I don’t actually get to see the error, the window closes too quickly…but I have the following from EventViewer: [pre] Log Name: Windows PowerShell Source: PowerShell Date: 12/11/2018 13:17:54 Event ID: 403 Task Category: Engine Lifecycle Level: Information Keywords: Classic User: N/A Compu…

Can’t see anything which can close the shell, can you call the script from an existing console or debug it in PowerShell ISE or VSCode.

Try putting pause at the end. Are you running it on another computer? The convertto-securestring won’t work without a key in that case.

hi, it’s all from the same computer (my laptop) with access to the same pwd files etc. even adding a pause doesn’t stop the windows closing fairly rapidly! so hard to diagnose. Thanks for all your help - I’ll try ISE and see if that works!

running inside ISE - works as expected, it’s just dropping the .ps1 into Powershell standard that’s got the problem…Confuseddotcom!

Is there any code in this which is copied from some other source ? hidden special chars will give problems.

How exactly are you running the ps1 file? A .lnk shortcut with “powershell -file c:\users\me\script.ps1”?

Hi Js, I’ve opened the notepad script, then saved it as a .ps1. After that I just dragged it into Powershell’s shell. I have also right clicked and ‘run with powershell’…both do not run. But if I drag it into ISE, it works as expected!

can you add Start-Transcript c:\temp\temp.log at the very beginning and execute once.

Thanks Kvprasoon, will try that now!

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Powershell script in Notepad works but not as .ps1

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