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Asked: 2026-05-23T20:45:41+00:00

I have a Powershell script and no matter what I try it completely ignores

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I have a Powershell script and no matter what I try it completely ignores any quotation marks in the script. The error occurs when I run the script from my VB.NET code yet, I have been running scripts successfully through VB.NET for a while now.

For example, my script starts with finding out the server name…

This works:

$name = gc env:computername

This does not:

$name = "SERVERNAME"

The error given is something along the lines of $name = SERVERNAME is not recognized as a cmdlet…. and so on.

This is causing several lines in my script to fail and the error message always displays the command WITHOUT the quotation marks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    When assigning string values you have to quote them (single or double quotes).

    $name = ‘SERVERNAME’

    or

    $name = “SERVERNAME”

    or assign it directly to a variable (doesn’t require quotes):

    $name = $env:COMPUTERNAME

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