Greetings,

I have a Windows Service hosting a powershell "server" which executes any cmdlets or ps1 files. I call the service from a Perl socket client:

perl client.pl "powershell.exe -PSConsoleFile 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\bin\exshell.psc1' -Command 'c:\scripts\auto\pstest.ps1'"

Here is pstest.ps1:

c:\scripts\auto\updatead.exe
$status = $lastexitcode
$force = 1
if ( $status -eq 0 ) { "Nothing to do" }
elseif ( $status -le 500 ) {
"Processing upto 500 results ($status to be exact)..."
c:\dir\automate\update.ps1
}
elseif ( $force ) { "Forcing changes" }
else { "Too many changes - use -force" }

The updatead.exe is a C# program which writes update.ps1 with user accounts that need updating. Calling update.ps1 by itself doesn't cause any problem, but UPDATEAD.EXE is is not executed for some reason.

For testing I created a HelloWorld.exe (tried both x86 and x64) and it works fine if I replace updatedad.exe with HelloWorld.exe. There is something wrong with updated.exe but my concern is why PowerShell is not returning the output (whatever it maybe) as it returns of HelloWorld.exe? Any Ideas? Will greatly apprecaite any help.

Regards,
msk

If the above is just an example, and the real path maybe has a blank in it, you could try this:
& 'c:\scripts\auto\updatead.exe'