Copy to Clipboard Powershell Glitch - excel

Question

I've created and script with Powershell that copy the result of a dataTable into the clipboard in order to paste it in Excel:
$excelArray = New-Object 'object[,]' $dt_table1.Rows.Count, $dt_table1.Columns.Count
$excelArray = ForEach($Row in $dt1.Tables[0].Rows)
{
$Record = New-Object PSObject
ForEach($Col in $dt1.Tables[0].Columns.ColumnName)
{
Add-Member -InputObject $Record -NotePropertyName $Col -NotePropertyValue $Row.$Col
}
$Record
}
$excelArray | ConvertTo-CSV -NoType -Del "`t" | Select -Skip 1 | Clip
[void]$WorkSheet.columns.Item(1).cells.Item(2).PasteSpecial()
$WorkSheet.Visible = $false
When i Exceute the script using "Powershell ISE" the script works fine, the problem came when i schedule this script using a CMD batch from the "Windows Task Scheduler". When the admin user is connected to the RDP and this batch is executed trough the scheduler it does not copy the result into the excel sheet, it copy the last thing i have in the clipboard.
When executing the batch and closing the RDP session, the batch fails without giving me an error..... What is happening? Maybe there is another way to copy the result of a datatable or dataset into an xcel sheet to avoid the clipboard?
Thanks!

Answer 1

A better way for working with Excel files is by using the module ImportExcel. It uses the EPPLUS library so you don't have to use any COM-objects, install Excel on a server or use the clipboard.
One way of exporting data to an Excel file is simply using Export-Excel.
First you need to install the module from the PowerShell Gallery:
Install-Module ImportExcel
Then you can use it in your scripts:
# myScript.ps1
#Requires -Module ImportExcel
Param (
$Path = 'C:\path\to\the.xlsx'
)
$exportToExcel = ForEach ($Row in $dt1.Tables[0].Rows) {
$properties = #{}
ForEach ($Col in $dt1.Tables[0].Columns.ColumnName) {
$properties[$Col] = $Row.$Col
}
[PSCustomObject]$properties
}
$params = #{
Path = $Path
WorksheetName = 'Data'
TableName = 'Data'
FreezeTopRow = $true
# HideSheet = 'Data'
}
$exportToExcel | Export-Excel #params
Some helpful commands to get you started:
Get-Help Export-Excel # displays what a function, its parameters, ..
Get-Help Export-Excel -Examples # displays how to use the function
Get-Command -Module ImportExcel # list all available functions in a module