SysInternals Tool: PsExec.exe

PS supports remote process. That means you may run a process on a remote Windows. Recently I was working on a project which requires to run a process on a remote Windows box. I tried to use WMI process to start a process on remote. It works on one box (Windows XP), but the same codes do not work on a Windows 2008 server.

Quickly I found a solution: a SysInternals tool, PsExec.exe. It is very small and it works well. To start a process and wait it terminated, there is the code:

PsExec.exe \\computerName -u userName -p pwd -i program args...

the option -i is used to start the program in an interactive way.