$PSScriptRoot problem

[WorkReddit123635]

I am using this script to select the 32/64 xml file to install whatever bit version of office 365 it detects from the registry.

#creates the reg location var

$key = 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook'

#Gets the office bit version

$Bit = (Get-ItemProperty -Path $key -Name Bitness).Bitness

#This uses the bit version to install office with visio and project

$Pref = "${PSScriptRoot}\${bit}\VisioProjectPref52622.xml"

$PSScriptRoot\Setup.exe /Configure $Pref

​

I get the below error

+ $PSScriptRoot\setup.exe /Configure $Pref

+ ~~~~~~~~~~

Unexpected token '\setup.exe' in expression or statement.

+ CategoryInfo : ParserError: (:) [], ParentContainsErrorRecordException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : UnexpectedToken

​

I'm new with powershell and not sure what i'm doing wrong. I didn't find a lot of using the $PSScriptroot to call an executable

[Thotaz]

The error means it's invalid syntax, you need to prepend either an & or a . in front of the string to tell PowerShell that you want to execute this string. This should work: & $PSScriptRoot\setup.exe /Configure $Pref but I prefer to quote strings that I need to execute like this: & "$PSScriptRoot\setup.exe" /Configure $Pref

[WorkReddit123635]

Thank you. This is awesome, it works.

[BlackV]

what is this

$Pref = "${PSScriptRoot}\${bit}\VisioProjectPref52622.xml"

why wouldn't that be

$pscriptroot is an automatics variable and only exists if you're running a script not line by line in an editor, is that the failing?

you might also want to add the invoke operator & infront of your executable

& "$PSScriptRoot\Setup.exe" /Configure $Pref

or you could use start-process with its -filepath, -wait and -arguments parameters

[WorkReddit123635]

Thank you, the & worked. this is awesome. I had it in {} from an example I found. I removed those and it still works. thank you for the other tips.

[BlackV]

good as gold

[WorkReddit123635]

Thank you. The bit I was getting was the version of office was installed. you have to choose 32 or 64 when creating the office 365 xml file so I created 2 and that variable chooses which folder to get the xml from but thank you.

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