I am new and seeking help. I manually open a remote desktop to a server and run a batch file I have sitting on that desktop. I want to do this thru VBA. I don't want to see the remote desktop and I would like to know when the batch file is finished running. Here is the code I have found so far. It brings me to the password screen for the remote desktop and I must take it from there manually. What do I need to add to the code to get this done.
TestVar = Shell("C:\windows\system32\mstsc.exe /v:" & "IP Address", 1)
The path for the batch file on the remote is: "C:\users\path\desktop\batch.bat"
If you aren't worried about the logon screen, and want to execute commandfs remotely, you need to take a look at Windows PowerShell
MS Technet - PowerShell INVOKE Command to execute a script on one or more remote computers
MS Technet - Running Remote Commands with PowerShell
I think this immensely popular StackOverFlow topic could prove useful too (See the answer with 200 upvotes by Jason R. Coombs
Stack Overflow: how to use ssh to run shell script on a remote machine
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For example I have a .py script on my computer (Windows Server 2017), and I want to use it to control a remote server (Windows Server 2017) to do the following steps:
Open MS Word(which has already been installed) on the remote server
Use the word to open a word doc which is located on the remote server too.
Anyone has any brilliant idea? Thanks a lot!
Soo, for this case, i would prefer PowerShell to do this task, because powershell has a lot of libs for admin taks, and automatization. And powershell are the language used in windows server, in my job, i use powershell to do some taks, like send an email, create a profile in the server, and other things. Show me the code:
$Filename='C:\HappyBirthdayEd.docx' #set the name and location of the file
$Word=NEW-Object –comobject Word.Application #set the word application
$Document=$Word.documents.open($Filename) #open the document
So, this little block of code open an word file. Just do some changes and i thing can work.
PS.: Sorry my bad english.
Problem solved here: How to connect to a remote Windows machine to execute commands using python?
Is there a way to launch a bash/ksh shell, or execute a shell script from Chromium? Is there a setting to tweak, a plungin to add, a workaround besides php and a local server?
Sorry if this is a duplicate. I assumed I would find an answer here, but only see answers about launching Chromium using a script or complete workarounds avoiding my question, with a local server and JavaScript/PHP. I have an Apache server available and can do the coding, but rather not.
I could do this in Internet Explorer on Windows (or used to be able to launch a .bat script there. I haven't used IE in a long time), why not in Chromium on Linux?
I understand the security concerns and sandbox in the browser, but in this case the browser never goes outside a firewall and I just want to launch a script from Chromium.
Thank you for your thoughtful replies.
Can someone show how I can open an Excel document and show it visually on an Azure virtual machine using a Powershell script sent from my local machine? I have already figured out how to run Powershell script on the VM through the AzureVM module but am running into the issue of Windows not allowing remote Powershell users to interact with a user interface. Notes:
I have tried PSEXEC with no luck. This may be the way to go, but I have had no luck getting it to actually work.
I am not smart, so please use the most dumbed-down terminology as possible.
My end goal is exactly that stated above - nothing more nothing less.
Riches and honor to the one who can solve this.
I am working my way through 'The linux command line' (http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php) . Since I don't have a local linux environment and I have to work in windows , I am telnetting into an Ubuntu 14.4 LTS instance on EC2 , with putty. On page 114 , when I run the xlogo command I get:
ubuntu#ip-172-31-22-65:~$ xlogo
Error: Can't open display:
How can I get this working?
xlogo will try to access the current Xserver to display a logo. If you're telneting to a box, you will not have an X server available, which is what that "can't open display" message is saying. It's trying to look at your DISPLAY environment variable to use that to show the logo on, but you don't have a display to use, and thus have nothing in your DISPLAY variable.
You will need access to an X server somewhere to do that step. One option would be to install cygwin on your Windows machine. Then you wouldn't need the remote linux box for most steps I imagine, because you could just use your local cygwin environment. Even if you want to use the remote box still, if you use cygwin and launch an xterm with it, you could ssh -X <host> and that will export your DISPLAY to that remote machine so it can display back on your windows machine.
As I mentioned in the comment under Eric Renouf answer, I am working thru the same book. That part of the book have some testing of creating users, groups, shifting users, group permissions etc. I found that I needed to log the same user out quite some times. The last time logging that user out, I got a message saying xlogo is terminatet, like it was hanging on that user?
After everyone was logged out, I logged in as sudo and everything worked again.
I'm currently working on automating a powershell script to make a dump of a small DB.
The database is accessible through a company Sharepoint and I am leveraging an IQY file exported from said Sharepoint to read the database contents.
When I run the script manually (i.e. calling it from the command line), it works with no issues, but when I try and start the script from Task Scheduler, the following exception is raised:
System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException
the line that is generating the exception is:
$iqy = $xl.Workbooks.Open($query, 2, $true)
Where $xl is a new Excel.Application ComObject, created correctly and $query is a string containing the full file path of the iqy file.
As for my configuration, I'm trying to run my script on a Windows Server 2008R2, using a local administrator user (same user that is supposed to launch the scheduled script), which is also authorized to access the Sharepoint. I'm running Powershell 3.0. I'm not loading any Sharepoint-related snapins.
The only answers I found poking around hinted at granting "Trust" to the IQY file location and the Sharepoint itself in Excel. That did not help.
The Exception also seems to point at a sharepoint issue, but since the script runs fine when started manually, I cannot understand how it could be anything to do with Sharepoint.
Am I missing some intricacy of the Task Scheduler?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Never mind, I seem to have found an answer.
If anyone is encountering the same issue, it appear the Excel Com Object has a bug that does not allow it to run from the Task Scheduler if you set it to run regardless of whether the user is logged in.
To circumvent that create the following 2 folders on the machine where the script is supposed to run:
(32Bit, always)
C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\Dektop
(64Bit)
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\Desktop
After creating the folders, it worked as expected.
Source: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/aede572b-4c1f-4729-bc9d-899fed5fad02/run-powershell-script-as-scheduled-task-that-uses-excel-com-object?forum=winserverpowershell