{"id":72991,"date":"2015-10-02T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/10\/02\/powertip-use-non-approved-cmdlet-or-app-within-powershell-workflow\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:35:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:35:02","slug":"powertip-use-non-approved-cmdlet-or-app-within-powershell-workflow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-non-approved-cmdlet-or-app-within-powershell-workflow\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use Non-Approved Cmdlet or App within PowerShell Workflow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/b>: Learn how to use a basic inline script in Windows PowerShell workflows.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Hey, I’m trying to convert a Windows PowerShell script to a workflow, but I keep running into an error that suggests
           the cmdlet cannot be used in a workflow. How can I get around this?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, Wrap that section of the workflow as an inline script, and recapture your variables with the Using<\/b> keyword,
           for example:<\/p>\n

Inlinescript<\/p>\n

            {<\/p>\n

            $Somevariable=Using:SomeVariable<\/p>\n

            Start-ProblematicFunction $Somevariable<\/p>\n

            }<\/p>\n

\"<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary: Learn how to use a basic inline script in Windows PowerShell workflows.  I’m trying to convert a Windows PowerShell script to a workflow, but I keep running into an error that suggests            the cmdlet cannot be used in a workflow. How can I get around this?  Wrap that section […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,356,154,45],"class_list":["post-72991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-guest-blogger","tag-powertip","tag-sean-kearney","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Summary: Learn how to use a basic inline script in Windows PowerShell workflows.  I’m trying to convert a Windows PowerShell script to a workflow, but I keep running into an error that suggests            the cmdlet cannot be used in a workflow. How can I get around this?  Wrap that section […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}