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Test-Path with -Credentails parameter fails

Hi,

When I try test-path on remote machine it fails:

read-host -assecurestring | convertfrom-securestring | out-file C:\cred.txt

$remotemachinepassword = get-content C:\cred.txt | convertto-securestring

$credentials = new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist "CGLASWEB01D\infra",$remotemachinepassword

test-path \\CGLASWEB01D\c$\donotshutdown.txt -Credential $credentials

it gives me the following error:

Test-Path : Cannot retrieve the dynamic parameters for the cmdlet. The FileSystem provider supports credentials only
on the New-PSDrive cmdlet. Perform the operation again without specifying credentials.
At line:1 char:1
+ test-path \\CGGLASWEB01D\c$\donotshutdown.txt -Credential $credential ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [Test-Path], ParameterBindingException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : GetDynamicParametersException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.TestPathCommand

Do anyone know how I can get this to work? or do anyone know an alternative I can use?

Regards,
Kay

footech

From everything I've read, the -Credential parameter of Test-Path is useless. I haven't seen a good explanation of why it's included. The documentation states -

This parameter is not supported by any providers installed with Windows PowerShell.

You can use New-PsDrive with your credentials (essentially creating a mapped drive), and if you like you can then use Test-Path specifying the new drive as the path (or you could just check whether the New-PsDrive command completed successfully).

$cred = Get-Credential
New-PSDrive -Name Z -PSProvider FileSystem -Root \\server\share -Credential $cred
Test-Path Z:\

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Kelly Garcia

ASKER

basically I have script for auto shutting down servers in azure, however if a file exists (donotshutdown.txt), for the server not to shutdown, therefore I put the test-path in an if conditional statement. Is this possible with the new-psdrive. below is my script:

workflow Shutdown_VMs_8PM {




$Tags=Get-AzureRmVM | ? {$_.Tags.Values -eq '8PM' -and $_.Tags.Keys -eq 'Shutdown-VM' }


Foreach -Parallel ( $VM in $Tags )
{

#$credential= 

if (test-path \\$vm.name\c$\donotshutdown.txt) {

    Write-Output "$($VM.Name) is shuttingdown"
    Stop-Azurermvm -Name $VM.Name -ResourceGroupName $VM.ResourceGroupName -ErrorAction Continue
  
}


}#end test-path

}#end workflow

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the above script is within Azure Runbooks.

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Kelly Garcia

ASKER

Problem is developers do not have access to the Azure Portal, and we wanted them to be able to stop the shutdown themselves.