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Executing Exchange PowerShell commands from a CMD Prompt

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A Quick blog on how to execute an Exchange PowerShell script (.ps1 extension) from a command prompt.

A .ps1 cannot be executed from a Command prompt. to execute it one needs to use a PowerShell shell. Further if this script calls any exchange cmdlet, it would require to be executed in an Exchange Management Shell.

 

The following command does all three in one line. i.e. run the script from c:\script\script.ps1 ( which is an exchange script ) from a command prompt.

 

C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -psconsolefile "C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\Bin\exshell.psc1" -file "C:\script\script.ps1"

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  • Anonymous
    December 09, 2013
    Today I used this to run some command. Good Info. Thanks.

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2014
    Very helpful in troubleshooting. Thank you.

  • Anonymous
    April 22, 2014
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  • Anonymous
    July 11, 2014
    How do you pass parameters into the PS1 script that you have in -file?

    -file "C:scriptscript.ps1" need to pass -parameter1 -parameter2 $false

  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2015
    Thank you! This mixed with PDQ deploy. I have what I need to automate some tedious tasks the business wants done.