All I have the following that is ran on a remote workstation. Invoke-Command -FilePath .\SysAidUninstall_AddIcon.ps1 -ComputerName $pc $arg1 = "/c " $arg2 = "classicuninstall " $arg3 = "quietmode" $arg = $arg1 + $arg2 + $arg3 Write-Host "Uninstalling SysAid Agent..." $service = Get-Service SysAid…

What tells you that it isn’t working? E.g., have you monitored the remote process list and don’t see the process starting, or is it not installing whatever it is it’s meant to uninstall?

I am monitoring the remote workstation. It is right beside me. I do see a msiexec start up but does nothing. It almost seems as though the ArgumentList is not being passed correctly to the remote workstation. When I run this on my local machine, it works as it should.

OK, so the command is working, it just isn’t having the desired outcome. It’s entirely possible that the installer isn’t able to run without a user context - e.g., a full profile. That’s super-common in MSIs, and unfortunately there’s not a great way around it. The LCM doesn’t spin up a full user pr…

So even though I am logged onto the remote workstation it still will not work when the script is ran remotely?

Windows is a multi-user operating system. The fact that you’re interactively logged into one session has nothing to do with whomever may be connected to other sessions. Remoting isn’t an “interactive” logon; it’s more like connecting to a file share.

Gotcha. Luckily the software I am uninstalling has a very basic file structure and is in only two places in the registry. Here is what I came up with that works. It’s somewhat crude but gets the job done. Write-Host "Uninstalling SysAid" Write-Host "===================" if (Get-Service SysAidAge…

btw, msiexec works very well if runned as $PackagePath = 'C:\msipackage.msi' # there should be local path Invoke-Command -ComputerName $computername { cmd /c start /wait msiexec /quiet /norestart /i $using:PackagePath }

https://gist.github.com/MVKozlov/d7f32171d640904630bfe10d40d7ea18

Start-Process not working on remote workstation

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Start-Process not working on remote workstation

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