Copy-File in scriptblock can't find path

Question

I have implemented a PS Script that deploys code on multiple servers at the same time. Here I need to copy some source file from one server to another. See the code below:

for ($i=1; $i -le 5; $i++) {
    $serverName="iwflO" + $i
    $sourceFile="\\iwdflO1\C$\Deploy\bin"
    $destination="\\$serverName\C$\Program Files (X86)\Shian\MyService\bin\"
    $Myblock = {
        Param{$sourceFile,$destination)
         Copy-Item -Force -Recurse $sourceFile -Destination $destination
    }
    $result = Invoke-Command -ComputerName $ServerName -Credential "shian" -ScriptBlock $Myblock -ArgumentList $sourceFile,$destination;
    $result;
}
cd c:\

It's working fine for iwflO1 which is the root server from where I'm running the script but for other servers it's giving me an error like

Cannot find Path "\iwdflO1\C$\Deploy\bin" because it does not exist.

But if I logged in to iwflO2 or any other server and hit the path manually its working fine.

Answer 1

I can see the mistake is with the block :

Instead of this:

$Myblock={param{$sourceFile,$destination)

copy-Item -Force -Recurse $sourceFile -Destination $destination
}

Do this:

$Myblock={param($sourceFile,$destination)

copy-Item -Force -Recurse $sourceFile -Destination $destination
}

This is working fine if I am hardcoding the server names(tested in my local)

Since you are using admin share, directly try this:

Copy-Item -Path \\serverA\c$\programs\temp\test.txt -Destination \\serverB\c$\programs\temp\test.txt;

Note: You have to specify the file. Else you get-childitem -recurse inside the source folder and put it directly in the destination .

Hope it helps.