A while ago in I included a little gem that I think deserves it’s own dedicated post; calling PowerShell scripts from a batch file. Why call my PowerShell script from a batch file?
When I am writing a script for other people to use (in my organization, or for the general public) or even for myself sometimes, I will often include a simple batch file (i.e.bat or.cmd file) that just simply calls my PowerShell script and then exits. I do this because even though PowerShell is awesome, not everybody knows what it is or how to use it; non-technical folks obviously, but even many of the technical folks in our organization have never used PowerShell. Let’s list the problems with sending somebody the PowerShell script alone; The first two points below are hurdles that every user stumbles over the first time they encounter PowerShell (they are there for security purposes):. When you double-click a PowerShell script (.ps1 file) the default action is often to open it up in an editor, not to run it. When you do figure out you need to right-click the.ps1 file and choose Open With – Windows PowerShell to run the script, it will fail with a warning saying that the execution policy is currently configured to not allow scripts to be ran.
My script may require admin privileges in order to run correctly, and it can be tricky to run a PowerShell script as admin without going into a PowerShell console and running the script from there, which a lot of people won’t know how to do. A potential problem that could affect PowerShell Pros is that it’s possible for them to have variables or other settings set in their PowerShell profile that could cause my script to not perform correctly; this is pretty unlikely, but still a possibility. So imagine you’ve written a PowerShell script that you want your grandma to run (or an HR employee, or an executive, or your teenage daughter, etc.). Do you think they’re going to be able to do it? Maybe, maybe not. You should be kind to your users and provide a batch file to call your PowerShell script.
The beauty of batch file scripts is that by default the script is ran when it is double-clicked (solves problem #1), and all of the other problems can be overcome by using a few arguments in our batch file. Ok, I see your point. So how do I call my PowerShell script from a batch file? First, the code I provide assumes that the batch file and PowerShell script are in the same directory. So if you have a PowerShell script called “MyPowerShellScript.ps1” and a batch file called “RunMyPowerShellScript.cmd”, this is what the batch file would contain. @ECHO OFF SET ThisScriptsDirectory=%dp0 SET PowerShellScriptPath=%ThisScriptsDirectory%MyPowerShellScript.ps1 PowerShell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command '& '%PowerShellScriptPath%'; Line 1 just prevents the contents of the batch file from being printed to the command prompt (so it’s optional).
Line 2 gets the directory that the batch file is in. Line 3 just appends the PowerShell script filename to the script directory to get the full path to the PowerShell script file, so this is the only line you would need to modify; replace MyPowerShellScript.ps1 with your PowerShell script’s filename. The 4th line is the one that actually calls the PowerShell script and contains the magic.
The –NoProfile switch solves problem #4 above, and the –ExecutionPolicy Bypass argument solves problem #2. But that still leaves problem #3 above, right? Call your PowerShell script from a batch file with Administrative permissions (i.e. Run As Admin) If your PowerShell script needs to be run as an admin for whatever reason, the 4th line of the batch file will need to change a bit. Thanks for the good info. I am running a simpler one-liner, from inside a batch file.
(Intended to ‘simply’ erase.xxx files recursively, like “erase.xxx /s /q”, but without legacy 8.3 issues deleting extra files like.xxxxx, as per; note that Powershell’s remove-item cmdlet still doesn’t work with its -recurse parameter, even in PS 4.0! This is getting crazy complex for something so simple.) This works from within a batch file: PowerShell “& Get-ChildItem.Include.xxx -Recurse Remove-Item” But when I try to add parameter -force to right side, to remove hidden files, this does NOT work: PowerShell “& Get-ChildItem.Include.xxx -Recurse Remove-Item -force” fails Any ideas how to get that to work — pipelining with a parameter, on a single line in a batch file?
I don’t know what you mean when you say it doesn’t work (fails); does it give an error message? Or simply just not delete the files? I’m guessing that it just doesn’t delete the files, and that you simply need to also provide the -Force switch to Get-ChildItem, otherwise hidden and read-only files won’t be found and passed to the Remove-Item cmdlet. So basically you want to use this: PowerShell “& Get-ChildItem.Include.xxx -Recurse -Force Remove-Item -Force” I hope that helps.
If you still need an answer I suggest posting your question with more detail on Stack Overflow or the PowerShell.org forums, as there are many others there who are smarter than I who can likely help you out ?. You could always pass in the batch file location as a parameter to the PowerShell script (see above comments for how to pass a parameter to the PowerShell script). To get the running batch file’s path use “%dpnx0” (without the quotes). If the batch file and PowerShell script are on different computers though (e.g. On network shares), you will want to pass in the batch file location relative to the network share (i.e.
Instead of passing “C: MySharedFiles MyBatchFile.cmd” (which is what%dpnx0 will give you) to the PowerShell script, pass in “ YourPCsName MySharedFiles MyBatchFile.cmd”). It’s easy enough to hard-code that file path in your batch file; I’m not sure how to get it dynamically in batch file code though (fairly easy to do in PowerShell), but I’m sure Google could help you with that. I hope that helps. Sorry, I guess I didn’t test it in a path that has spaces, so I never noticed this problem ? I re-tested and by using the PrintScreen button and GreenShot I was quickly able to see this error: Processing -File ‘C: temp folder Test.ps1 C: temp folder’ failed: The given path’s format is not supported. Specify a valid path for the -File parameter. The problem was the powershell script name and each of the parameters needs to be wrapped in 4 (yes 4) double quotes. I’ve updated the code on the post to fix this.
Hi, great post – I’m a bit of a newbie to PS, but I can’t get the ‘wait’ clause to workif I run your code from within Powershell I get: PS E: Data Scripts Powershell # Wait for input before closing. Write-Host “Press any key to continue” $x = $Host.UI.RawUI.ReadKey(“NoEcho,IncludeKeyUp”) Press any key to continue Exception calling “ReadKey” with “1” argument(s): “The method or operation is not implemented.” At line:3 char:1 + $x = $Host.UI.RawUI.ReadKey(“NoEcho,IncludeKeyUp”) + + CategoryInfo: NotSpecified: (:) , MethodInvocationException + FullyQualifiedErrorId: NotImplementedException Other Googling seems to suggest I can’t use ReadKey with PS? Any pointers would be most appreciated. Sorry, that code will throw an exception if you are not running your script from the PowerShell Console; I’ve updated it to wrap it in an IF statement so it only prompts for input when running in the PowerShell Console. If you want to prompt for input before continuing regardless of which host the script is running in (e.g. PowerShell ISE), then you can use: Read-Host -Prompt “Press Enter to continue” $null The difference here though is that the user must press Enter to continue, not just any key.
Unfortunately I don’t have much experience using network drives in my PowerShell scripts ? Why don’t you want to hard code the UNC path? You just don’t want the user to see the full UNC path (e.g. SomeServer SomeFolder SomeOtherFolder ScriptsFolder) for security reasons? Or you are afraid that if the UNC path ever changes that it will break all your scripts? One possible workaround may be to create another “shortcut” UNC path that simply points to the real UNC path (e.g. Shortcuts ScriptsFolder).
This would both hide the absolute UNC path from the user, and you could always change the shortcut UNC path to point somewhere else if needed. I don’t know the proper terms for this or how to set this up myself, but I know at my organization we have several different UNC paths that all point to the same network location, so I’m sure it’s possible to do. I hope that helps. Thanks for the insight.
We use a generic ‘install.cmd’ wrapper for all of our installs so it would really be nice to be able to use one standard script for everything that detects the current path if run from a mapped drive – no modifications wherever it is run from. The other reason that you mentioned is also a concern – that the script will break if the UNC path changes if hard coded. I think I’m close at getting it going based on the link in the previous post. It seems to detect the UNC path from a mapped drive nicely. This would cover us if the script was run from a mapped drive or not. Google and Stack Overflow are your friend ? To read the last running program/scripts exit code, use the ERRORLEVEL variable as they show here: To have your PowerShell script return an exit code (other than zero), be sure to have the script exit using: exit some integer To pull some variable’s value from PowerShell into the batch script I think you would need to write the value in PowerShell using Write-Output, and then capture that output somehow, perhaps by using stream redirection,.
Sorry I don’t have all of the answers, but I hope this helps. I’m trying to do something similar but having problems. For ease of use for the users that will be runnning this I want the commands to be in a batch file. I need to create some AD security groups but need to specify the OU to use and the group name in the variables. The user running the script will enter the branch code and OU and the group will be built off those values. Here is what I have so far but I think the space in the group name is causing problems.
It seems to think that “Test” is another parameter. I have tried enclosing the name value in double parenthesis but its still gettng the same result. Any suggestions? SET /P OU=Enter OU: Set /P Prefix=Enter Prefix: Powershell New-ADGroup -Name “%Prefix%-OWA Test” -SamAccountName “%Prefix%-OWA Test” -GroupCategory Security -GroupScope Global -path “OU=%OU%,OU=Test1,DC=Test2,DC=Test3,DC=Test4,DC=com”. Thanks for the reply.
I’ll take your advice and post on Stack Overflow. I tried both suggestions and they don’t error out but they don’t create the groups either so I’m not sure what is going on. When I run them, it just echoes the command back to me.
I also never see the Active Directory Module being loaded. I think it has something to do with the curly braces because when I remove them the AD Module loads but I get the error shown below. I just started learning about Powershell so I’m still not clear on the specifics of when to use ,”,’,or.
Execute Batch File Powershell
I also tried running the command directly without using the variables in my post above but get the same error. Its something related to running from the cmd line though as I can run it in powershell succesfully. Here is the error I get when I run without the curly braces.
New-ADGroup: Cannot convert ‘System.Object’ to the type ‘System.String’ required by parameter ‘Path’. Specified method is not supported. At line:1 char:110 + e Global -path OU=Groups,OU=Branch1,OU=Test,DC=Test1,DC=Test2,DC=Test3,DC=com -Des + + CategoryInfo: InvalidArgument: (:) New-ADGroup, ParameterBin dingException + FullyQualifiedErrorId: CannotConvertArgument,Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.
I have been using deleteold.ps1 from Technet to clear up files older than x days on individual nodes in our HPC Cluster. From the headnode I use it with the following parameters.
Deleteold.ps1 -FolderPath Nodename1 c$ project-9 input-data temp -FileAge 7 -LogFile Nodename1.log The powershell script is on a network share that the headnode and all computenodes can see and write to. Jobs being run by users create hundreds of files so the clean up can take 15min to 1 hour depending on what else is happening on the node at the time. I would like to run the from the Clusrun command line in the ClusterManager so that it can process the task simultaneously rather than sequentailly as at present.
Obviously I modify the -Folderpath parameter to only have the c$ project-9 input-data temp but I cannot work out how get it to run either directly or via a batch file. Can anybody help please? A couple ideas: 1 – Use a remote session to delete files, so the commands run directly from the remote maching. New-PSSession -ComputerName $Server 2 – To make them run in parallel, use several Start-Job commands to call your script, and instead of passing in the root directory, pass in folders in the root directory.
Deleteold.ps1 -FolderPath Nodename1 c$ project-9 input-data temp Folder1 -FileAge 7 -LogFile Nodename1.log Start-Job. Deleteold.ps1 -FolderPath Nodename1 c$ project-9 input-data temp Folder2 -FileAge 7 -LogFile Nodename2.log. In the “run as admin” version, when passing parameters, and when the powershell script is passed as an environment variable, the -File parameter does not want any doublequotes, neither 2, nor 4. In other terms, of these three -File “”””%myScript%”””” -Param1name “”””Param 1 value”””” -Param2name “”””Param 2 value”””” -File “”%myScript%”” -Param1name “”””Param 1 value”””” -Param2name “”””Param 2 value”””” -File%myScript% -Param1name “”””Param 1 value”””” -Param2name “”””Param 2 value”””” only the third one works. This probably solves Jerome’s issue. Great Article.
I have a tab delimited text file which contains values my bat file will read and pass to the PowerShell script, this is so I can have multiple lines in the input file so can do multiple. The bat file does the following: FOR /F “tokens=1-1”%%i in (C: Values.txt) do PowerShell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command “”; The test.ps1 is a simple test file which should print Item1 (which needs to have come from the%%1 substituted value): param(string$Item1) $text = $Item1 $text Set-Content ‘C: file.txt’ In my test file I get the word Parameter rather than the word contained in my values.txt file – not sure how I go about construction the -commend “” section so that%%i can be used/substituted. Anyone done this before? Any help appreciated. So I found a problem, when running the powershell script with Administrative permissions (i.e.
Run As Admin), it will not wait for user input at the end of the script. Placing -NoExit as part of the argument list works, but then quite obviously after the you press any queue, Powershell does not exit. ? If I run my script without Administrative permissions, then the code you provided above will wait for user input. My question is, how do I get this to work with Administraive permissions? It is useful to be able to capture error messages (if any).
Thank you for update, I used same code what you gave @ECHO OFF SET ThisScriptsDirectory=%dp0 SET PowerShellScriptPath=%ThisScriptsDirectory%IISRestart.ps1 PowerShell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command “”; I am getting error as below Access denied, you must be administrator of the remote computer to use this command. Either add your account to administrator local group of remote computer or to domain administrator global group. I am already admin on that remote computer. Still i am getting same error every time. Hello, I’m trying to run a powershell command from the command line where I want to use the ‘pipeline’ “ ” It fails on the command line, but it runs oke witin a powershell environment.
How can I use the “ ” on a commandline powershell command? F: OTA scriptsPowershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -File F: OTA scripts GetGroups.ps1 SwartJ Export-CSV.
NedstedMembersSwartJ.csv -NoTypeInformation ‘Export-CSV’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. When I use the next command I only get a powershell command prompt.
Powershell.exe & “-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -File F: OTA scripts GetGroups.ps1 SwartJ Export-CSV. NedstedMembersSwartJ.csv -NoTypeInformation”.
Thanks for the batch help! I’m getting an error that somehow a space is being inserted in the path. Batch file: SET ThisScriptsDirectory=%dp0 SET PowerShellScriptPath=%ThisScriptsDirectory%Delta.ps1 PowerShell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command “& ‘%PowerShellScriptPath%'”; Error: &: The term ‘C: PSLib Delta.ps1 ‘ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again. There is not a space in the filename. Daniel, You are so wonderful to post this fantastic information!
I Googled many, many, many, MANY articles, but YOURS did the trick! I was able to understand it and do it and make my boss happy.
I created batch files (using your instruction) that stop and start a Windows service. These were used in an InstallShield Basic MSI project. I created Custom Actions that called InstallScripts, that called the batch files, that called Powershell scripts (with Admin privileges) to stop and start the service before and after the install. Thanks again, and I hope you will keep posting! Old post – if anybody has any input, the PS1 I’m trying to run must be ran on a domain controller.
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Hi i am trying to run as you mentioned here in the below lines replacing script wtih my PS script but its still prompting for UAC and doesn’t proceed without asking for it when scheduled it as task with system user as this is the way i want it run, i ran some.bat files which needs admin permissions and those works fine. But the same.bat file when run it from admin cmd prompt it works, i @ECHO OFF SET ThisScriptsDirectory=%dp0 SET PowerShellScriptPath=%ThisScriptsDirectory%MyPowerShellScript.ps1 PowerShell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command “”; Let me know what i am missing here.
If you look closer at your command, just before%PowerShellScriptPath% you are using some other character that is not a single quote. Perhaps it copied wrong when pasting it in this blog, but I suspect it is wrong in your source. Also your double quote characters are questionable as well. Using something like Notepad.exe (I prefer better text editors myself, like Notepad), when I copy your script and paste it into either of these editors you’ll see the quote characters are not formatted properly. My non-caffeinated brain at the moment can’t think of the proper term for the quote characters you want, but they literally look like plain chicken scratches, and not the better formed curly type you might expect in a document processor like MS Word.
Replace all your double quotes and single quotes in your original script with proper plain text quote characters and I suspect your errors will go away.
Can we run a custom PowerShell script in Release Management Deployment Agent? One way is to create a PowerShell script and add it as a resource and create a tool and an action in Release Management Inventory.
This is more suitable for adding a generic tool. But if we want to run a custom PowerShell script specific to a given release template, copied to deployment machine from the build drop, can we do that? Out of the box set of tools and actions in Release Management Server do not support this.
We can do this by creating a generic tool and an action. Let me show you how to do this step by step. In Release Management Client go to Inventory tab Tools, click on New. For the execution command type “powershell” and for the arguments type -command ScriptToExecute Arguments This will add two parameters in the tool “ScriptToExecute” and “Arguments”. Provide a suitable Name and a Description as well.
Click on Save & Close to add the new tool. Go to Actions and click on New to add new action. Select the tool we have created and add a new Category for Custom Actions. Fill the Name and Description. Save to create the new Action. Let’s test our Tool and Action in action. First we need a very simple PowerShell script like below.
In a test release template now we can see our custom action available. Fill the script name with the path and arguments(for testing purpose script copied manually to deployment machine, this can be a script downloaded to deployment machine from the build drop using an XCOPY action in the release template). Save the release template and click New Release to test. This example does not use a build out put, but the action can be used with a template bound to a build drop as well, as a matter of fact it can be used with any release template. Start the release by clicking on Start. Script execution succeeded.
Click on View Log to see the output from script. To fail a script based on a condition throw an exception like below and release action will fail. Hi Madhukar, IS it actually taking long time to run your script and a timeout?
If so try to increase the action timeout and see. Could you send me a screenshot of the release template where you are passing arguments to the action? And if you could you try to comment all of the script and print the arguments you pass inside run.ps1? If this is working successfully, we can say tool & action passing the arguments to your script correctly.then you can enable your scripts step by step to diagnose. If you are ok to send your run.ps1 to me I'll have a look.
We are trying to Launch a GUI Application (an EXE) after the deployment. Options Tried: 1. We tried using 'RUN COMMAND LINE' action in our Release Template to invoke a BAT file which internally calls the application EXE. Here we are not able to see the application is launching. But it looks like triggering the BAT file and the EXE process is running under DEPLOYER account. We tried using 'RUN COMMAND LINE AS USER' but we are getting an error as follows: 'Run Command Line as User The installation command 'powershell -command./RunCommandLine.ps1 -FilePath 'C: Temp Abc.bat' -Arguments ' -UserDomain 'XX' -UserName 'Abc' -UserPassword '.'
' failed with the exit code '1 '. I have edited the RunCommandLine.ps1 on the client machine, by updating the System.Diagnostics.ProcessWindowStyleto Normal and this works fine, when i manually run this on the machine. Then Tried to invoke via custom powershell script (as per your blog) but no luck. Error says - 'The specified executable is not a valid Win32 application' Is there a way to launch the application in UI mode? Abhishek said. Hi Chaminda, I have a problem similar to this post: I am trying to run Selenium cases by invoking a batch file, that will trigger the selenium cases. But when I run the bat file directly in server, the browser opens, and test continues.
But this does not happen when I invoke the bat file from the Release Manager (using the PowerShell: Script Executor / Run Command line components). Please can you guide me here Thanks Abhishek.
Lets assume that we have an application already in TFS Version control which will be used in the below build definition. In this post I will showcase how to call a Batch Script from build definition which will create a text file with some text messages.
Step 1: Create a simple Batch file named CreateTextFile.bat with scripts as shown below, Step 2: Connect to TFS Team Project, add and Check-in batch script file CreateTextFile.bat to the Version Control. Step 3: Create a build definition using TFS 2013 default build template and make sure that the script file is mapped to the agent folder in Source Setting tab of build definition. Step 4: In build definitions Process tab provide the version control path of CreateTextFile.bat as below. Step 5: Trigger the build and verify that DemoTextFile.txt is created in path C: We can follow the above steps to execute PowerShell or any scripts using team build.
2 Likely the most useful tool in the list of Team Foundation Build Activities is InvokeProcess. This little Activity lets you call out to anything you want. I have found it very useful for executing a batch file that is stored with my source code to do a number of things. Invoke a PowerGen build for PowerBuilder Applications. Invoke Devenv.exe for building Reporting Services, or calling a deployment script you don’t want to rewrite at the moment. When I went to use this activity the first time there was not much out there as an example so I thought I would post a quick and dirty example of using the Invoke process. Find the place in your process where you want to make the call and drag in an Activity.
Next you want messages that come from the application you are calling to end up in your Build report. This is done via.
So drag over a Activity and a Activity into the Invoke process as seen below. There are two variables defined stdOutput and errOutput they need to be placed in the message property of the Write Activities. I would set the Importance property on the WriteBuildMessage Activity to High. Like this: Now for the properties of the Invoke process. It’s pretty simple really.
DisplayName: This will be exposed in the Workflow so it’s good to name it something that reads well and tells the reader what you are doing here. FileName: The file you want to call. For batch files I find it useful to put the file in source control with the app. Then use the SourcesDirectory variable to find it. Arguments: What you want to pass to the called application or batch file. Result: Your ExitCode variable.
The last thing you call from the batch file or the app will generally return an then you can use that to determine if you want to carry on in the build process. EnvironmentVariables: This dictionary of allows you to specify environment variables and their values. OutputEncoding: You can specify the encoding that is used to read the output and error streams. I have only ever used the default value. So if I wanted to call a batch file named MyBatchFile.bat and it was in source control at the root of my solution folder, and I want to pass in the Drop Location from my build definition. My InvokeProcess might look like this.
. Before we get started, to do the same thing, which is actually quite a lot more graceful than using a batch file.
If you are confused about which approach to take, use Ewald’s way of doing this. I suppose you could call this article “Automatically Updating Your AssemblyInfo The Wrong Way“.
If there is some constraint or reason that means you really must use a batch file, I’m not here to preach at you or tell you that those constraints are not valid. You know your domain better than I do! So here is how you would integrate a batch file into your TFS Build process to update your version automatically. This example is based on a few environmental assumptions. I am using a shared file, rather than looping through every AssemblyInfo.cs. Each project still has its own AssemblyInfo.cs with any specific information that is needed, which means AssemblyInfoShared.cs just has the common properties.
The shared file lives next to the solution file and is referenced as a linked file in each project. I am using Visual Studio 2012 and TFS 2012, but things should be similar in Visual Studio 2010, which also has the XAML based build definition workflows. This definitely won’t apply to Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 as they just used MSBuild.
Lastly, although my examples do some specific things, please generalise them and adapt them to your specific scenario. Use your own agreen build number formats and decide what properties belong in the shared files. Build Number Format The default build number format is: $(BuildDefinitionName)$(Date:yyyyMMdd)$(Rev.r) This results in a build number of “BUILDNIGHTLY-20121201.0”. I am using my own custom build number format: $(TeamProject)-1.0.0$(Rev.r) This results in “ProjectName-1.0.0.0”. When we come to use this build number, we won’t want “ProjectName-“, so we’ll just take the rest. You can invent whatever numbering scheme you like, but in this specific case the first three numbers a hard-coded. That is because sales and marketing wanted control over the major and minor version and the third number was used for patches.
For example:. 1.1. is a marketing decision. 2.0.
is a big marketing decision.1. is a patch.243 is an automatic number that increases with each build Batch File The batch file replaces the entire contents of the shared Assembly Info file every time the build runs. It also deals with source control. Whether you need to version this shared file will depend on your individual and unique situation. Generally speaking it is better if you don’t have to version it, but in my specific case, there was a need for developers to pull the latest and create DLLs that were the correct version to drop onto their test environments, so it was easier if they didn’t have to check and edit this file manually.
The file accepts two parameters. The version number and the file path. This allows TFS to pass this information when it executes the batch file.
I also parameterised the path to the TF source control command line (which you only need if you want to check-out and check-in the file) and the current year, for the copyright message. The batch file can also be executed manually, so it prompts for the arguments if they haven’t been supplied.
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