C# and Veeam Powershell not working as expected

[dannordquist]

Hey Andreas,

I've been using some powershell script in a C# application for several years, and due to an upgrade of VEEAM, it has stopped working in part of the app.

What I mean is, I run several powershell commands, but only one of them does not return any data, and I get no errors. But, the command will return data if I run it manually in a powershell window.

Here's the script that works:

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     Runspace rs = RunspaceFactory.CreateRunspace();
                    rs.Open();
                    PowerShell ps = PowerShell.Create();
                    ps.Runspace = rs;
                    ps.AddScript("Add-PSSnapin VeeamPSSnapin");
                    ps.AddScript("Get-VBRJob | ?{$_.IsContinuous -match \"false\"} | where {($_.GetLastResult() -eq \"Failed\") -OR ($_.GetLastResult() -eq \"Warning\")} | select name");

and

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 Runspace rs2 = RunspaceFactory.CreateRunspace();
                        rs2.Open();
                        PowerShell ps2 = PowerShell.Create();
                        ps2.Runspace = rs2;
                        ps2.AddScript("Add-PSSnapin VeeamPSSnapin");
                        ps2.AddScript("$Job = Get-VBRJob -name \"" + result.Members["Name"].Value + "\"");
                        ps2.AddScript("$LastSession = $Job.FindLastSession()");

                        // getlog here to get job level warnings
                        ps2.AddScript("$lastsession.logger.getlog().updatedrecords | ?{($_.status -eq \"EWarning\") -OR ($_.status -eq \"EFailed\")} | select title");

Both of those run fine and return data as always, but the following will not return data in the C# application:

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 Runspace rs3 = RunspaceFactory.CreateRunspace();
                    rs3.Open();
                    PowerShell ps3 = PowerShell.Create();
                    ps3.Runspace = rs3;
                    ps3.AddScript("Add-PSSnapin VeeamPSSnapin");
                    ps3.AddScript("Get-VBRJob | ?{$_.IsContinuous -match \"false\"} | select name, {$_.Findlastsession().creationTime}, {$_.Findlastsession().EndTime}, {$_.Findlastsession().IsFullMode}");

Like I said, this will return data if I run it manually, but nothing in my app.

It used to work fine, but an upgrade to VEEAM broke it.

Any ideas?

Thank you!
Dan

[sasilik]

Just a guess but if something returns data when you are logged in on console and using powershell/command prompt but does not if you run it some other way then it may be problem with permissions. Specifically "interactive user" permissions which you have when you are interactively logged in. If your application runs it probably does not have "interactive user" permissions.

[tdewin]

Also make sure you compile for 64 bit. The snapin is 64 bit only