Hi LucD - I have made some progress with my scripting, decided there is no way to script the logon I'm looking for without the reg modification that I don't want, so I started to develop new ways to script the verifications I need. and in doing so, I implemented the Invoke VMscript method as you suggested, but it continues to fail to authenticate. I do have the PSscript I wrote working directly in powershell, but when I attempt to perform the actions with powercli Invoke VMwcript I can't authenticate.
this I extracted the piece that is causing the problem and tried to run a simple script:
connect-viserver $vcentername
$VMs = get-vm -location $CLUSTERNAME | Sort -property Name
Invoke-VMScript -ScriptText $script -VM $VMs -GuestUser administrator -GuestPassword ********
What could I being doing wrong in this? all the VMs are built with the same admin pw... so I would think I shouldn't have any problem logging in with this the way it is...
I'm using vSphere powercli 5.1 release 2