How to execute VBScript through a PowerShell Script

I was eagerly searching for a solution to call a VBScript through PowerShell script, after going through several articles and collecting information in bits and pieces from various sources written a very small and useful code, you can use it at your wish,

My requirement: Call vbscript along with passing two arguments to it, one is server name and other one is a folder name.

 

Command:

1. Declare $args to collect arguments (in this case server name and folder name I collected in two variables from my other commands in PowerShell script

$args = “$Server $FolderName”

 

2. Create a command statement basically calling cmd to call cscript and execute test.vbs which resides in local folder, you can specify full path to vbs if required (don’t foget to include double quotes)

$command = “cmd /C cscript .\test.vbs $args”

 

3. Now use invoke-expression method to execute it

invoke-expression $command

 

Note: if you wish to execute vbs to remote computer, then you use invoke-command method but you need to test it first; as my requirement was different hence not tested it, but it should work for simple vbs.

 

My final script looks like,

 

$args = “$Server $FolderName”

$command = “cmd /C cscript .\test.vbs $args”

invoke-expression $command

 

If you are new to programming and struggled for this one, then hope you find it useful 🙂