Power Shell Help Needed

Question

Hello Folks,
I have finally got the piece of code working but I need help to put it together. I am trying to install printer remotely on to users computer. it is working but part by part. I want to put this together and having some difficulties. My first part of code is to enable the PS Remoting onto remote computer....

$SessionArgs = @{ 
ComputerName = 'computername' ** ( I would prefer to user variable here) 
#Credential = Get-Credential 
SessionOption = New-CimSessionOption -Protocol Dcom 
} 
$MethodArgs = @{ 
ClassName = 'Win32_Process' 
MethodName = 'Create' 
CimSession = New-CimSession @SessionArgs 
Arguments = @{ 
CommandLine = "powershell Start-Process powershell -ArgumentList 'Enable-PSRemoting -Force'" 
} 
} 
Invoke-CimMethod @MethodArgs 

This part works. Then I do is ...create a new PS Session by following.....

$session = New-PSSession -Computername 'computername' 
Invoke-Command -ComputerName ComputerName-ScriptBlock {& cmd.exe /c "\\computername\c$\temp\Printer.exe"} 
Remove-PSSession $session 

This also works and it install the printer package which is a .exe file.
Now after this I use following code to disable the PS Remoting on to the remote computer....

$SessionArgs = @{ 
     ComputerName  = 'ComputerName' 
     #Credential    = Get-Credential 
     SessionOption = New-CimSessionOption -Protocol Dcom 
 } 
 $MethodArgs = @{ 
     ClassName     = 'Win32_Process' 
     MethodName    = 'Create' 
     CimSession    = New-CimSession @SessionArgs 
     Arguments     = @{ 
         CommandLine = "powershell Start-Process powershell -ArgumentList 'Disable-PSRemoting -Force'" 
     } 
 } 
 Invoke-CimMethod @MethodArgs 

And this also works fine individually.
Now I want to put this together so I do not have to do it one after another. I would also like to use the $computer instead of ComputerName.

My ideal situation would be...when I run this scripts it should open the explorer to chose the printer package file to copy and then it will copy to the remote machine's c:\temp folder.
I hope I am not asking too much but I know you all genius will be able to help me out.

Answer 1

Is enabling PSRemoting a requirement? If it isn't you could try to just run the code that installs the printer via psexec. That way you don't need to enable and disable PSRemoting again.
Alternatively you could deploy the script via ConfigMgr if available or even via GPO

Answer 2

Let's try this: put each of your three original scripts into individual PS1 files. Then create a new PS1 file that looks like this:

& <PATH>\Script1.ps1
& <PATH>\Script2.ps1
& <PATH>\Script3.ps1

Then run the new PS1 file.

Does that work? I just want to verify that I didn't mess anything up when I merged the three scripts.

Answer 3

You didn't mention how you wanted to acquire the name(s) of the remote computer(s).

See if this works:

$computername = "remotecomputer"  
$SessionArgs = @{  
    ComputerName  = $computername  
    #Credential = Get-Credential  
    SessionOption = New-CimSessionOption -Protocol Dcom  
}  
$MethodArgs = @{  
    ClassName  = 'Win32_Process'  
    MethodName = 'Create'  
    CimSession = New-CimSession @SessionArgs  
    Arguments  = @{  
        CommandLine = "powershell Start-Process powershell -ArgumentList 'Enable-PSRemoting -Force'"  
    }  
}  
Invoke-CimMethod @MethodArgs  
  
Invoke-Command -ComputerName $computername -ScriptBlock {& cmd.exe /c "c:\temp\Printer.exe"}  
  
$MethodArgs.Arguments = @{CommandLine = "powershell Start-Process powershell -ArgumentList 'Disable-PSRemoting -Force'" }  
Invoke-CimMethod @MethodArgs  
Remove-CimSession -CimSession $MethodArgs.CimSession  

It really just sticking the three scripts together and removing the repetitious code.