I want to call another secondary powershell script from within my primary powershell script. I want to pass it a parameter from the primary script, the secondary script needs the username parameter, I want to pass to it, from the primary, and then have the secondary script Im calling use different credentials. I think I might be able to use invoke-command, I just dont know all the syntax, anyone able to post some examples of what I want to accomplish, and then I'll fill in the blanks if need be? Thanks in advance! :-)
2 Answers
Assume that your secondary script looks like this:
param (
[string] $Username = $args[0]
)
Write-Output -InputObject $Username;
You can use the Start-Process cmdlet to launch the script with alternate credentials.
$Credential = Get-Credential;
Start-Process -Wait -NoNewWindow -FilePath powershell.exe -ArgumentList '"c:\path\to my\file.ps1" -Username "UsernameGoesHere!"' -Credential $Credential;
Or you can use the Invoke-Command cmdlet:
Invoke-Command -FilePath 'c:\path\to my\script.ps1' -Credential $Credential -ArgumentList "UsernameGoesHere!";
3 Comments
Bill
Where do I specify the parameter I am passing it from the primary script?? Thanks.
Bill
Thanks Trevor, I will try that, and let you know how it goes.
I got it, thanks to Trevor Sullivan for pointing me in the right direction. I ended up just putting my second ps1 file into a scriptblock, and running it as a job, and passing it the arguments from the main script, like this
$job = Start-Job -scriptblock {
param ($username)
some code to run against the variable that was passed in
} -Args $target -credential $Cred
$target being the variable I want to pass to my scriptblock $username being the parameter that the scriptblock accepts Thanks.