Scheduled task to run vmware view PowerCLI scrip to refresh virtual desktops-not working well

[kongfupanda]

Hi Team, I have view 5.3 and need to use windows scheduled task to run a  script to to refresh the VM, but it shows running while no actual response on VC. If I  run the powerCLI and manually run two line of command to refresh the pool ID ,it works and the Vcenter shows the tasks running. Any advice what's wrong? Does it support ps1 fle? I saved these two lines in  ps1 file. please advise or give some examples,thanks!

[mpryor]

When you click on the powerCLI shortcut in the start menu, it's running a ps1 script to load our cmdlets - have you incorporated that into yours?

[kongfupanda]

no... any idea how to incorporate it?

do you refere to this ?

C:\Windows\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe -noe -c ". \"F:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View\Server\extras\PowerShell\add-snapin.ps1\""

here below is my lines for the scripts:

$a = get-date ((get-date).AddMinutes(2)) -format "yyyy-MM-%d HH:mm"

Get-Pool -pool_id UAT | Get-DesktopVM | Send-LinkedCloneRefresh -schedule $a

[mpryor]

Yes that one, the simplest solution is to call it directly:

.  F:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View\Server\extras\PowerShell\add-snapin.ps1

$a = ...

But you can also look at it's contents to see how it is loading our extension and mimic it.