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installing file on remote machine with GUI

whenever an .exe file is executed on remote machine with help of pssession and invoke-command with start-process.. it the execuable runs in background , i am able to see the process in task manager but cpu alloted to that process is 0% and also it keeps running.

i want to pop up GUI of executable file on remote machine whenever i run script.

i tried.. 1)

Invoke-Command -ScriptBlock {Start-Process -Wait -FilePath 'C:\Documents and Settings\user\Desktop\scripts\dbsetup_trial.exe' -ArgumentList '/S' -PassThru -Verb runas}

2) by enetring in PSsession, i tried executing exe, bt result was same. please help me out.

i need to install file , if silent installation is option it should install file silently or just pop the window of executable and return back.

Solution

  • You cannot invoke a GUI on a remote system's interactive session via PowerShell. PowerShell remote sessions are unable to interact with other sessions, especially the logged-on user session(s).

    psexec can do this, but the better way to do this is to run a silent/unattended install if it's an option with that application installer. We can't answer that because we don't know what that installer is or how it's made.