Powershell – How to redirect PowerShell output when run from Task Scheduler

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When running a simple PowerShell script from Task Scheduler, I would like to redirect the output to a file.

There is a long thread about this very topic here, yet it's not clear if they reached the most appropriate solution in the end. I'm interested if anyone on Stack Overflow has also solved this problem, and how they did it?

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I use the transcript feature to help with this. Just include it in your code and it outputs all (would be) screen content to a log file.

Start-Transcript -path $LogFile -append

<Body of the script>

Stop-Transcript

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Windows – How to run a PowerShell script

Launch Windows PowerShell, and wait a moment for the PS command prompt to appear
Navigate to the directory where the script lives
```
PS> cd C:\my_path\yada_yada\ (enter)
```
Execute the script:
```
PS> .\run_import_script.ps1 (enter)
```

What am I missing??

Or: you can run the PowerShell script from cmd.exe like this:

powershell -noexit "& ""C:\my_path\yada_yada\run_import_script.ps1""" (enter)

according to this blog post here

Or you could even run your PowerShell script from your C# application :-)

Asynchronously execute PowerShell scripts from your C# application

Powershell – Run Powershell script in windows Task Scheduler(Windows 7)

You can't log into the GUI with a scheduled task. Enable automatic logon if you need an interactive desktop.
Remove -NoExit from the argument list, otherwise PowerShell will keep running after the script completes. Also replace your single quotes with double quotes.

The execution policy is persistent unless it's superseded by a local or group policy (in which case Set-ExecutionPolicy should throw an error) or you're logged in with a temporary profile.

If that doesn't help you need to provide more details. Doesn't the task start at all? Do you get an error? What do the task history and eventlog say? What is the output of Get-ExecutionPolicy?

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Windows – How to run a PowerShell script

Powershell – Run Powershell script in windows Task Scheduler(Windows 7)

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