Passing varaible to external powershell inside AHK Topic is solved

[shadad]

Hi there

am preparing a long script to retrieve the LAPS password in to a variable and print it to a msgbox. i have this nice script that do the job silently and print the result to msgbox perfectly. however, when i replaced the server name by the variable %VAR% which i set it before its not working and shows nothing. its only work if i mention the computer name as string but not as %VAR% variable! i think the %VAR% is not replaced or passed to that command for some reason.

can any one advice?

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DetectHiddenWindows On
VAR = exampleServerNEW
Run %ComSpec%,, Hide, pid
WinWait ahk_pid %pid%
DllCall("AttachConsole", "UInt", pid)
WshShell := ComObjCreate("Wscript.Shell")
exec := WshShell.Exec("powershell.exe -command ""Get-AdmPwdPassword -ComputerName %VAR% |  foreach { $_.Password }""")
output := exec.StdOut.ReadAll()
MsgBox %output%
DllCall("FreeConsole")
Process Close, %pid%
return

[shadad]

Got it myself . damn this took almost 3 days/

after long testing the script work perfect. all if i have to do is changing my code from this :

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exec := WshShell.Exec("powershell.exe -command ""Get-AdmPwdPassword -ComputerName %VAR% |  foreach { $_.Password }""")

to this :

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exec := WshShell.Exec("powershell.exe -command Get-AdmPwdPassword "-ComputerName VAR "|  foreach { $_.Password }")

I need to dig deep to find out why the reason. testing and assuming is not what i like. am still new to Autohotkey scripts but am learning.