Running a script from another script as another user

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Hi all,

I’m trying to run another script from a main script as a different user then redirect the output to a file. I can’t work out what I’m doing wrong, the error is “the directory name is invalid”. Please help!

$logpath = "\\Network\scripts\logs"
$rand = get-random -maximum 50
$filepath = "\\Network\NewUserScript.ps1"

Start-Process powershell -Credential (get-credential) -ArgumentList '-noexit','-file',$filepath,'> $logpath\transcript$rand.txt'

 

2

Two issues…

  1. The way how arguments are passed.

  2. Output redirection

  3. How to pass arguments.

Start-Process -FilePath PowerShell.exe -ArgumetnList "-NoExit -File $FilePath"
  1. Redirection of output, you can use RedirectStandardOutput Parameter
Start-Process -FilePath PowerShell.exe -ArgumetnList "-NoExit -File $FilePath" -RedirectStandardOutput "$logpath\transcript$rand.txt"
3

Thanks for your reply kvprasoon, I didn’t know about the -redirectoutput switch. Now I have;

Start-Process powershell -Credential (get-credential) -ArgumentList "-noexit -file $filepath" -RedirectStandardOutput "$logpath\transcript$rand.txt"

Unfortunately this still yields the “directory name is invalid” error.

4

This should work. can you share the exact error you get.

5

It’s working now, the second user didn’t have the drive mapped the first user was running it from.

 

Thanks for the assistance.