Shell script gives wrong result

[BoschmanIT]

Hi all,

I have a question. If I run the script below from the script manager it says

[12:05:58 ] Script executed, correct result received:
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- Status: Ok
- Reply:
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But that is wrong, It should result in Status: Bad and Reply: 151000. When I run powershell myself it does work just as expected and the output is correct.

Code: Select all

$statusOk          = "ScriptRes:Ok:"
$statusBad         = "ScriptRes:Bad:"

$Backlog = (Get-DfsrBacklog -DestinationComputerName "MyServerName" -SourceComputerName "MyOtherServerName" -GroupName "MyGroupName" -FolderName "MyFolderName" -verbose 4>&1).Message.Split(':')[2]
$Backlog = $Backlog.Trim()

if ($Backlog -ge 1){
    echo $statusBad" $Backlog"}
else {
    echo $statusOk" $Backlog"}

[KS-Soft]

Status is Ok because $Backlog is empty.
Why $Backlog is empty? May be some permission related issue, script started under different accounts may provide different results.

You should modify your script, it should check for possible errors, set Unknown status in case of error and provide error message

Regards
Alex

[BoschmanIT]

Hi Alex,

I chopped it into pieces and the following result came back.

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (Get-DfsrBacklog:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
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When the shell script runs, does it use the powershell.exe from the operating system? Because it seems that whenever I run the Get-DfsrBacklog command, it does not seem to know the the command. But when I open powershell direcly (on the same server, and even as the same user that runs the HM service) powershell does know that command.

[KS-Soft]

Some powershell commands work only in x64 version of powershell.
You should start powershell using path like
c:\Windows\Sysnative\windowspowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe

Regards
Alex

[BoschmanIT]

Hi Alex,

by Sysnative you mean the System32 folder?

[KS-Soft]

No. If you type system32, Windows will redirect system calls. Type sysnative
Sysnative - a special alias used to indicate that the file system should not redirect the access.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/window ... redirector

Regards
Alex

[BoschmanIT]

Hi Alex,

I never knew the existence of this feature. It solved the problem. Thank you very much.

[KS-Soft]

You are welcome

Regards
Alex