Question

All works fine on my dev machine but if deployed to IIS the process doesn’t get started. I am starting a powershell script by

    private void RunScript()
    {
        Process process = null;
        try
        {
            int timeout = 1800000;
            var startInfo = new ProcessStartInfo
            {
                FileName = @"powershell.exe",    
                Arguments = string.Format("{0} {1}", "\path\toscript", "myParam"),
                UseShellExecute = false,
                CreateNoWindow = true
            };                   

            process = Process.Start(startInfo);
            process.WaitForExit(timeout);
        }
        finally
        {
            if (!process.HasExited)
            {
                if (process.Responding)
                    process.CloseMainWindow();
                else
                    process.Kill();
            }
            if (process != null)
            {
                process.Close();
                process.Dispose();
            }
        }  
    }

Here’s what’s configured for the app pool this is running under.

Process Model

->Identity = domain user who is a Domain Admin.

->Load User Profile = True

Web App

Authentication is Windows

What else do I need to configure to so that I can run the Process?

Answer 1

It’s much better to embed the PowerShell APIs the call the .exe

Here’s an old link that will get you a PowerShell runspace embedded in ASP.NET per user:

http://powershellpipeworks.com/