Starting an powerscript with start-process command

Question

I try to start an powershell script with adminright from an other powershell script.

i have a small problem with starting an powershell script from another powershell script.

what's working:

I can start powershell with admin rights. that's not an issue. but what i want to do is:

start-process powershell -verb runas -argumentlist "-file .\scriptname.ps1"

what happens is powershell opens, en closes directly

when i use within powershell .\scriptname.ps1, the script is running without problems.

hope someone can help me to figure out why it's not working

Answer 1

You need to fully qualify the path to the script because runas will set the current working directory to C:\WINDOWS\system32.

Add the noexit switch so that PS does not terminate immediately, and you can see the error message.

start-process powershell -verb runas -argumentlist "-noexit -file C:\MyScripts\scriptname.ps1"