PsExec Throws Error Messages, but works without any problems

Question

So we are using PsExec a lot in our automations to install virtual machines, as we can\'t use ps remote sessions with our windows 2003 machines. Everything works great and t

Answer 1

This is because PowerShell sometimes reports a NativeCommandError when a process writes to STDERR. PsExec writes the infoline

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to STDERR which means it can cause this.

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