Lauch PowerCLI script from an external application

Hello

I work with an external application to scheduling. It allows to launch command line scripts. I wrote a ps1 script that creates a new guest VM. I want to be able to call this script - the planning application CreateVM.ps1 however I am not sure of the command line to use. Launch of Powershell is not a problem, but it will launch the normal Powershell that does not give me access to commands PowerCLI. Anyone know how to run a script of ps1 PowerCLI guest BACK from a .BAT file?

Thank you very much

Ben

You can add the snap-in on the first line of the script:

Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core

or use the following to run your script:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe - PSConsoleFile "C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\VIToolkitForWindows\vim.psc1" "& C:\CreateVM.ps1 '"

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Alan Renouf

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