PowerShell - Remote Software Install

I've been able to do this with PowerShell Remoting (has to be enabled on all the target computers).
Steps are:
- create new pssession for target machine
- If needed by the installation process, copy the file(s) to the target machine via UNC path
- Run the .MSI file.
- You may want/need to perform some cleanup of files, and/or unneeded pssessions.
Here's the core code that would actually run the .MSI.

$computers = Get-Content computers.txt
foreach ($comp in $computers)
{
   $deploy = { & msiexec.exe /I installwizard.msi /quiet }
   $session = New-PSSession -ComputerName $comp
   Invoke-Command -Session $session -ScriptBlock $deploy
}

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Thanks for the info,

Now will the "Invoke-Command work on a ShortCut to the MSI file on the server"?
Also with your code I do not see the path to where compters or the msi is being stored.

I can store it in c:\Temp\  

then it would look like this

$computers = Get-Content 'c:\Temp\computers.txt'
$m = "c:\temp\software install.lnk'

can you make it a little more clear?

Okay so here is what works for me.

$computers = Get-Content "c:\temp\computers.txt"
foreach ($comp in $computers)
{
   Copy-Item -path "T:\TBA Client\TBA Client Update.msi" -Destination \\$comp\c$\temp
{

That part actually does what I want.  Which is copy the files to the TEMP directory.
Now I want to Establish a PSSession with all those computers in my $computers variable.
I want to (invoke-item  "c:\temp\*msi") on all those computers to run the msiexe.exe

I have tested it out on one machine PSSession and it works. I just do not know how to get multiple PSSessions to execute the (invoke-item)

If Invoke-Item works for you, then you can just substitute that for line 3 in my post above.  The code I posted creates a new session and then uses that with Invoke-Command to run all the commands that are stored in the $deploy variable.

I will test it on Monday as my Day is done here at work!

Thank you, and I will keep you posted.

No problem.  If you have any issues I may not be able to respond until the following week.
Happy Holidays!

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