Scheduled powershell script won't run on W2003SP2

• Wednesday, July 04, 2012 12:21 PM

   

   
  

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  I have a scheduled task on Windows server 2003 SP2 that points to a powershell script. The problem is that the scheduled task starts a powershell console window (title has svchost.exe) but does not run the script. What's more when I add the argument -noexit so that the powershell windows stays open and manually type the full path to the script in it still does nothing. When I run a 'whoami' command it is using the correct domain admin account that was specified and has permissions to run the script. The script will run if a normal powershell window is opened and you type the full path to the script in. The command in the schedtask run box is below and I have already tried all sorts of variations on it:

  C:\WINNT\system32\WINDOW~2\v1.0\powershell.exe -noprofile -noexit "&{d:\gpobackups\PurgeGPOBackups.ps1}"

  # Script to purge all GPO folders older than 365 days
  $GPOBKPATH = "D:\GPOBackups"

  Get-ChildItem $GPOBKPATH | where-object {$_.CreationTime -le (Get-Date).adddays(-365) `
   -And $_.PSisContainer -eq 'True'} | remove-item -recurse -force

  I have even tried pointing the scheduled task at a batch file that calls the powershell script but I get the same problem. Execution policy is set to unrestricted.

  Can anyone help or advise? Thank you.

  
  

  • Edited by Stu-NI Wednesday, July 04, 2012 12:22 PM
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