Remote PS Scripting Question/Problem

[kscurloc]

I’m new to BatchPatch and even more so to PowerShell scripting. So I apologize in advance for my lack of knowledge on the subject.

I’m trying to clean out all my server’s event logs. I can achieve I can run this directly on each server without issue:

wevtutil el | Foreach-Object {Write-Host “Clearing $_”; wevtutil cl “$_”}

I also know you need to put this in front of it first, with the above surrounded by double quotes.

cmd.exe /c echo . | powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -command

But I’m not sure what the entire syntax needs to look like when I put it into remote command 3. I think I’m having issues using double quote vs single quote, etc. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance!

[kscurloc]

I was able to figure this out… here’s what I did:

cmd.exe /c echo . | powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -command “wevtutil el | Foreach-Object {Write-Host “Clearing $_”; wevtutil cl “$_”}”

[doug]

Glad you got it figured out. This should also work:

powershell.exe -command "wevtutil el | Foreach-Object {Write-Host "Clearing $_"; wevtutil cl "$_"}"

[kscurloc]

So that’s a good question, now that you mention it. =)

In your tutorials, it says to use the “cmd.exe /c echo . | powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -command”. Why is this necessary, or isn’t it?

Thanks again… really like this tool!!!

[doug]

Some things have changed since that tutorial was written. In some cases it may be necessary to use the syntax from the tutorial whereas in other cases it might not be needed anymore.

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