I am a fresh beginner to PowerShell.
I have username and password to reach a shared folder in a remote location.
I need to copy the file foo.txt
from the current location to \\Bar.foo.myCOmpany.com\logs
within a PS1 script that is written for Powershell v3.0.
How can I achieve this?
Copy-Item doesn't support the -credential parameter, This does parameter appear
but it is not supported in any Windows PowerShell core cmdlets or providers"
You can try the below function to map a network drive and invoke copy
Function Copy-FooItem {
param(
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true,ValueFromPipeline=$True)]
[string]$username,
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true,ValueFromPipeline=$True)]
[string]$password
)
$net = New-Object -com WScript.Network
$drive = "F:"
$path = "\\Bar.foo.myCOmpany.com\logs"
if (test-path $drive) { $net.RemoveNetworkDrive($drive) }
$net.mapnetworkdrive($drive, $path, $true, $username, $password)
copy-item -path ".\foo.txt" -destination "\\Bar.foo.myCOmpany.com\logs"
$net.RemoveNetworkDrive($drive)
}
Here's how you can run the function just change the parameters for username and password
Copy-FooItem -username "powershell-enth\vinith" -password "^5^868ashG"
I'd make use of BITS. Background Intelligent Transfer Service.
If BitsTransfer module not implemented for your session:
Import-Module BitsTransfer
Sample of using it to transfer a file using a credentials:
$cred = Get-Credential()
$sourcePath = \\server\example\file.txt
$destPath = C:\Local\Destination\
Start-BitsTransfer -Source $sourcePath -Destination $destPath -Credential $cred
Caveat: If you are executing script within a RemotePS session, then BITS is NOT supported.
Get-Help for Start-BitsTransfer:
SYNTAX
Start-BitsTransfer [-Source] <string[]> [[-Destination] <string[]>] [-Asynchronous] [-Authentication <string>] [-Credential <PS
Credential>] [-Description <string>] [-DisplayName <string>] [-Priority <string>] [-ProxyAuthentication <string>] [-ProxyBypass
<string[]>] [-ProxyCredential <PSCredential>] [-ProxyList <Uri[]>] [-ProxyUsage <string>] [-RetryInterval <int>] [-RetryTimeou
t <int>] [-Suspended] [-TransferType <string>] [-Confirm] [-WhatIf] [<CommonParameters>]
More help...
Here is script to create $cred object so you aren't prompted for username/passwod:
#create active credential object
$Username = "user"
$Password = ConvertTo-SecureString ‘pswd’ -AsPlainText -Force
$cred = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential $Username, $Password
You can try with:
copy-item -path .\foo.txt -destination \remoteservername\logs -credential (get-credential)