Running remote GUI app in Powershell

Question

We have a custom comonent that wraps some of the functionality of powershell so it can be used frim BizTalk 2006. For most operations (checking a file path, copy or move a

Answer 1

Using standard PowerShell methods (WinRM, WMI) you can't launch applications with GUI. The only solution I know about is to use PsExec from SysInternals (or similar tools). It can launch applications which present GUI to the user. Your command line will look like this:

& ".\psexec" -accepteula -i "\\computername" -u "domain\username" -p "password" "command line"

• -accepteula — silently accept EULA.
• -i — allow GUI.

Other solutions are more hacky, including remote adding of tasks to the scheduler.