Powershell script fails when run via nant

executionpolicy, nant, powershell

Solution

If they are running on a 64-bit machine, have they set the execution policy for both 32-bit and 64-bit PowerShell? It could be that they set the policy for 64-bit PowerShell and NAnt is firing up 32-bit PowerShell (or vice-versa). Another way to work around this if you're on at least PowerShell 2.0 is to set the policy when invoking PowerShell e.g.:

PowerShell.exe -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned ...

Problem

I have several team members who can't run powershell scripts via nant. When they do, they get the `ExectutionPolicy` (not high enough, still set at the default value). However, they've run `Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned` in a powershell console, and they can run the powershell scripts directly. Any ideas about what's going wrong?

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