How do I get errors to propagate in the TeamCity PowerShell runner

Question

I have a TeamCity 7 Build Configuration which is pretty much only an invocation of a .ps1 script using various TeamCity Parameters.

I was hoping that mig

Answer 1

Powershell v2 atleast had an issue with the -File option messing up error codes. There is some details about how it messes up and stuff.

The answer is either switch to -Command option and/or wrap it with a bat file that checks the LastErrorCode and returns 1+ if its supposed to fail.

http://zduck.com/2012/powershell-batch-files-exit-codes/