Problem with Send in Powershell (Ran as Admin)

[woody619]

Hi,

I'm having trouble with the last window ("Administrator: Windows PowerShell")receiving the characters via "Send" I'm  thinking it must be something with the Powershell being run as admin window.  What am I doing wrong?  Please let me know if there's an easier way than how I'm doing it.  Thanks

Run ("cmd.exe")
               WinWaitActive ( "C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe")
                  Send ( "powershell" & "{ENTER}" )
                  Send ( "Start-Process PowerShell –Verb RunAs" & "{ENTER}" )
               WinWaitActive ( "Administrator: Windows PowerShell")
                  Send ( "powershell.exe -noexit C:\ps1\script1.ps1" )

[SmOke_N]

Confusing me to death?  lol, kidding.

Send is not something you should rely on to be 100% accurate.  To many variant factors can screw it up.

My question is this...  What's wrong with ShellExecute() or RunAs()? to run powershell directly without the need of all the sends etc...

[JLogan3o13]

Or skip the multi-language scripting of PS altogether and just perform the tasks in AutoIt?

[woody619]

Thanks for the help guys.  Sorry new to scripting, so didn't think about using ShellExecute which works great.

Can't use RunAs it's part of a tool to be use by a group, so want to avoid putting credentials in script.

I'm using powershell, because it allows me to remotely reboot the machine.  It prompts for the name of the machine in Autoit's GUI and I'm hoping it will pass it somehow over to powershell (hoping send command) when it's executed and then does it.

Is there a way I can get the variable information passed to powershell when powershell executes and prompts for input?  The gui i created in Autoit has a field for the computername.

It doesn't seem that the Administrator Powershell Window can take the characters when sent via Send

Edited January 27, 2015 by woody619

[iamtheky]

This prompts for user input, then uses that input in a Powershell command.  It then goes on to do other things with the output of that command, but if you are just rebooting then you would be done there.

There is not a need to ever send things to the powershell window (that i have encountered), you can just run the commands from autoit.

Edited January 27, 2015 by boththose