script working in Visual studio but not when running from Batch file

Question

I have a script which supposed to run powershell with different credentials and then in that session supposed to goto network path and install a file:

$path1 = "\\192.168.10.10\bucket\test.exe"
Start-Process powershell -Credential $creds -ArgumentList "-Command &{Start-Process $path1 -Verb RunAs}"

looks like no problem running this from the ISE but when i save the ps file and tried to call it from batch file i get the folowing error:

What could be the reason for that?

Answer 1

When you use Start-Process with the -Credential parameter, whatever happens to be the caller's current directory matters:

If the target user identified by the -Credential argument happens not have the required permissions to access the caller 's current directory, you'll get the error you saw.

The solution:

• Use the -WorkingDirectory parameter to specify a current (working) directory for the new process that the target user is allowed access to.

• Alternatively, switch to such a directory in the caller 's context first.