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Asked: 2026-05-24T22:53:23+00:00

Background: I am running a script locally that has to be run as SYSTEM,

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Background:
I am running a script locally that has to be run as SYSTEM, lets not get into why that is. 🙂
The script attempts to check the health of my MSSQL cluster with a simple query. The problem I am running into however is that the local SYSTEM account doesn’t have access to the remote database. At this point I’ve tried a number of things, which I’ll get into in a moment, but I’m honestly up for any solution that makes sense. If it means creating a local account in the database that can answer my simple query that’s fine too.

There is what I have so far:

$Server = 'myserver.domain.tld'
$Database = 'myDatabase'
$Query = 'SELECT DB_NAME() AS DataBaseName'
$Username = 'myDomain\myUsername'
$Password = 'myPasswordWithPlainText'
Invoke-SQLCmd -ServerInstance $Server -Database $Database -ConnectionTimeout 300 -QueryTimeout 600 -Query $Query -Username $Username -Password $Password

The result: Invoke-Sqlcmd : Login failed for user 'myDomain\myUsername'

Maybe Invoke-SQL doesn’t take Windows authentication I thought, but it doesn’t use -Credential. So then I tried to use Invoke-Command as a wrapper.

$Server = 'myserver.domain.tld'
$Database = 'myDatabase'
$Query = 'SELECT DB_NAME() AS DataBaseName'
$Username = 'myDomain\myUsername'
$Password = 'myPasswordWithPlainText'
$secpasswd = ConvertTo-SecureString $Password -AsPlainText -Force
$credential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential ($Username, $secpasswd)
Invoke-Command -script {Invoke-SQLCmd -ServerInstance $Server -Database $Database -ConnectionTimeout 300 -QueryTimeout 600 -Query $Query} -Credential $Credential

Which got me: Invoke-Command : Parameter set cannot be resolved using the specified named parameters.

So.. I’m stuck. Any thoughts?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Sadly I tried it all (including Matt’s suggestion) and then some and I just cant get it to work under the following parameters.
    1) The script is launched from a service running as the SYSTEM account. 2) The system is in a separate domain/subnet/etc than the SQL cluster. 3) The query has to run real time and return in real time as the query is only part of a larger script.

    For now I’ve thrown in the towel and created a local SQL login to use then use Invoke-SQL as is with the -username and -password options. It is not how I wanted to handle the situation BUT it is what it is. Thank you all!

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