Scheduled powershell script not running dot sourced scripts

Question 1

I have a main script that is running other scripts and loading the variables from those scripts using dot sourcing. The script runs fine interactively but when I schedule it to run it does not run the scripts I am dot sourcing. Any ideas?

Question 2

I had a similar problem: My dot sourced scripts didn’t execute when I ran the main script with run as administrator.

It turned out, that the base dir was different, when I ran the script as administrator. Try using the absolute path in your dot sourcing. If it works then, you can work out a better solution, like this:

$subScriptName = "MySubscript.ps1"
$subScriptPath = Join-Path -Path $callingDir -ChildPath $subScriptName

if (Test-Path $subScriptPath)
{
    # use file from local folder
    . $subScriptPath
}
else
{
    # use central file (via PATH-Variable)
    . $subScriptName
}

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$subScriptName = "MySubscript.ps1"

$subScriptPath = Join-Path -Path $callingDir -ChildPath $subScriptName

if (Test-Path $subScriptPath)

{

# use file from local folder

. $subScriptPath

}

else

{

# use central file (via PATH-Variable)

. $subScriptName

}

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