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How to run a custom powershell script with elevated privileges in a playbook

Summary​

How to run a custom PowerShell script with elevated privileges in a playbook

Issue​

A custom PowerShell script that requires elevated privileges will not run, even if the credential profile has elevated privileges.

Instructions​

  1. Upgrade the customer to 2.7 SP1 HF8 or greater
  2. In the action's Credential Profile, select a profile that has elevated privileges.
  3. Put this line of code at the start of the script, and paste the rest of the former script into the code block.
Invoke-WithImpersonation -ScriptBlock { #Insert code in here }