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Scheduling a powershell script

Hello All,
I'm having trouble with using the Scheduled Tasks utility to run a powershell script. I have read the posts here and on different sites and they all have indicated that I should:
1. Create my powershell script.
2. Create a batch file to run that script.
3. Use the Scheduled Task utility to execute the batch file.

I have created my powershell script. Here is the code:

$OS = "Windows*server*"
$Servers = Get-QADComputer -OSName $OS | foreach{$_.name} | Sort-Object
$results = ""
Foreach ($item in $Servers) {
$PingResult = Get-WmiObject -Query "Select * From win32_PingStatus Where address='$item'"
      If ($PingResult.statuscode -ne 0) {
      $results = $results+ "$item is not pingable and the server is off-line. `n"
      }
}

$mail = New-Object System.Net.Mail.MailMessage("Server@test.com","nick@test.com","Offline Servers", $results)
$smtp = New-Object System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient("mail01.summitlan.states", "25");
$smtp.Send($mail);

I have created a batch file to execute the powershell script. Here is that code:
Powershell -command "$ {c:\sascripts\OfflineServers.ps1}"

When I run the powershell script from PowerShell or PowerGUI it works fine. When try to schedule the script to run, I get a blank email.

I thought this could be a security issue so I set the executionpolicy to unrestricted and I verified that the scheduled task was configured to run with my credentials.

As always, and and all help is extremely appreciated.

Regards,
Nick

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ndalmolin_13

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Here was the problem:
Powershell -command "$ {c:\sascripts\OfflineServers.ps1}"

The "$" in the above line should have been a "&".

I made this change and it worked as expected.

jjoz

still it didn't work out man, see the attached code.

G:\>Powershell -command "& {G:\Print.ps1}"
File G:\Print.ps1 cannot be loaded. The file G:\Print.ps1 is not digitally sign
ed. The script will not execute on the system. Please see "get-help about_signi
ng" for more details..
At line:1 char:16
+ & {G:\Print.ps1 <<<< }
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], PSSecurityException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : RuntimeException

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