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Psexec works on command line but not in ASP

I am using PsExec to remotely fire a program. I can fire the actual program (not displayed here) or cmd.exe remotely with no problems whatsoever from the command line. When I try to fire it from ASP and C#, it will not trigger the command prompt, even though I am using the same exact string. Here is the string I am using that works every time, and the code that doesn't. Help please!
Working String: C:\psexec \\10.0.0.25 -u Administrator -p password -d -i cmd.exe
Non-working code:
ProcessStartInfo psi = new ProcessStartInfo(#"C:\PsExec.exe")
{
UseShellExecute = false,
RedirectStandardOutput = true,
RedirectStandardError = true,
RedirectStandardInput = true,
Arguments = #"\\10.0.0.25 -u Administrator -p password -d -i cmd.exe"
};
process.StartInfo = psi;
var success = process.Start();

One option, assuming you have control over the machine, is to setup the psexec command as a Task Scheduler job, then execute the task scheduler job from your ASP app. You can configure the task scheduler to run as an administrator, and when you fire off the job it will run under that credentials. You won't get any output that way though, so if that's an issue there may not be a good choice.
See How to run existing windows 7 task using command prompt for an example of running the task..

It's been a while since I was a system administrator, but if I recall correctly psexec has to be run from an administrative command prompt. Maybe the account your app is running under doesn't have rights to reach across the network and do stuff to a remote machine?
Put this in your Page_Load temporarily:
Response.Write(Environment.UserName);
and run it again, it should show you the name you're looking for at the top of your app.

Well, I am right now doing some automation and have figured out a few things. Please see below code maybe it will help you out
public static void PSExec_Method()
{
try
{
string userName = #"ABC";
string password = "ABC";
string remoteMachine = "ABC";
//How to restart AppPool
//string operation = "stop";
//string apppoolname = "APPPOOL";
//string command = #"%SYSTEMROOT%\System32\inetsrv\appcmd " + operation + " apppool /apppool.name:\"" + apppoolname + "\"";
string command = #"powershell -noninteractive Get-Content C:\tmp\tmp.csv -Head 5";
//string command = #"ipconfig";
string PSPath = #"C:\PSTools\PsExec.exe";
string fullcommand = PSPath + " -u " + userName + " -p " + password + " \\\\" + remoteMachine + " -h cmd.exe /c " + command;
System.Diagnostics.Process process = new System.Diagnostics.Process();
process.StartInfo.WindowStyle = System.Diagnostics.ProcessWindowStyle.Normal;
process.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
process.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
process.StartInfo.RedirectStandardError = true;
process.StartInfo.RedirectStandardInput = true;
process.StartInfo.FileName = "cmd.exe";
process.StartInfo.Arguments = fullcommand;
process.Start();
Console.WriteLine(process.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd());
Console.WriteLine(process.StandardError.ReadToEnd());
process.WaitForExit();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Console.WriteLine(ex);
}
}

Passing arguments into a batch file, from c#

I have a batch file I want to run from a C# windows form. the Batch file is very basic and accepts one parameter
cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Advent\ApxClient
AdvScriptRunner REPRUN -mrgainloss -p%1 -vf -t\\myserver\apx$\pdf\myReport
If i call it in a command prompt, this works fine
C:\Program Files (x86)\Locations\blah>realizedgainloss 123456
that will run just fine, and i get the expected result (it outputs a report run on a third party peice of software). However I cannot for the life of me figure this out with c#. I have the following.
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
ExecuteCommand(getCommand());
}
public string getCommand()
{
return "realizedgainloss.bat";
}
static void ExecuteCommand(string command)
{
int exitCode;
ProcessStartInfo processInfo;
Process process;
processInfo = new ProcessStartInfo(command);
//processInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
processInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
// *** Redirect the output ***
processInfo.RedirectStandardError = true;
processInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
processInfo.Arguments = String.Format("{0} {1}", command, "123456");
process = Process.Start(processInfo);
process.WaitForExit();
// *** Read the streams ***
// Warning: This approach can lead to deadlocks, see Edit #2
string output = process.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
string error = process.StandardError.ReadToEnd();
exitCode = process.ExitCode;
Console.WriteLine("output>>" + (String.IsNullOrEmpty(output) ? "(none)" : output));
Console.WriteLine("error>>" + (String.IsNullOrEmpty(error) ? "(none)" : error));
Console.WriteLine("ExitCode: " + exitCode.ToString(), "ExecuteCommand");
process.Close();
}
Its worth noting that if i do not provide a parameter, and change the bat file to be static, with 12345 in place of it's %1, then it runs from C#, so there is something incorrect about how i'm getting the parameters into the bat file...
any thoughts?

You have your batch file name as the command to run and the first parameter of your script. I find it easier and more reliable to use cmd.exe as the command to run and invoke it with the /C argument. Doing it this way you should make sure your working directory is set correctly as well.
processInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("cmd.exe");
processInfo.Arguments = String.Format("/C {0} {1}", command, "123456");
processInfo.WorkingDirectory = yourWorkingDirectory;

Calling Sav32Cli.exe from asp.net c# application "Code 2 - If some error preventing further execution is discover "

I have integrated Sav32Cli.exe in my asp.net c# application & its working fine in my local machine but when we move it on the testing server I am getting the following error "Code 2 - If some error preventing further execution is discover "
The scenario is If only 1 person performs the activity it works fine but concurrent connection performs the same activity then I am getting this error for some connections.
Actual scenario : We have the page where users upload the pdf file & as soon as the file is uploaded on the server we perform the scanning via sop-hos and when multiple users perform the same activity I am getting the following error : Code 2 - If some error preventing further execution is discover. So I would like to know from you guys what should I do to bypass this error & implement the scanning successfully into my application.
Below is the code I have written to integrate the scanning into my application :
System.Diagnostics.Process process = new System.Diagnostics.Process();
System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo startInfo = new System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo();
try
{
string filePath = sFileDetails.DirectoryName + "\\" + sFileName;
startInfo.WindowStyle = System.Diagnostics.ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;
startInfo.FileName = "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Sophos\\Sophos Anti-Virus\\sav32cli.exe";
startInfo.Arguments = String.Format(#" -ss ""{0}""", filePath);
process.StartInfo = startInfo;
process.StartInfo.Verb = "runas";
process.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
process.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
process.Start();
string output = process.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
StringBuilder objStrBuilder = new StringBuilder();
objStrBuilder.AppendLine("Status " + output.ToString());
int i = process.ExitCode;
objStrBuilder.AppendLine("Code " + i.ToString());
File.WriteAllText(sFileDetails.DirectoryName + "\\" + Convert.ToString(System.Guid.NewGuid()) + ".txt", Convert.ToString(objStrBuilder));
if (i > 0)
{
return false;
}
return true;
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
return false;
}
finally
{
process.Close();
process.Dispose();
}

Have you considered using SAVIDI for this - https://www.sophos.com/medialibrary/PDFs/partners/sophossavdidsna.ashx
SAV32CLI will take long time to load all the virus data into memory, I would expect around 5 seconds. This is fine when you're scanning your hard disk but per file it would be rather slow. If you're launching multiple instances then it would be quite a memory drain also.
If your throughput needs improving, I would suggest looking at SAVIDI. In this scenario there is service which loads the virus data once at startup and you can then ask it to scan a file/directory.
This post and attachment in the thread could help you:
https://community.sophos.com/products/endpoint-security-control/f/sophos-endpoint-software/9420/sophos-sav-di-icap-code-sample
Regards.

Sav32Cli.exe requires more permission to execute in web app. So impersonation technique helped me to solve this issue.
This link helped me to solve this issue : Click Here

Install SQL Server 2012 Express Programmatically

I work on Setup application to install all requirement for my WPF product, one of the requirement is SQL Server 2012 Express, the code below is to install it after I generate the configuration file for silent installation :
private void SetupSQLServer()
{
string result = "";
string commandLine = "";
if (os64)
commandLine = string.Format(#"{0}\SQLServer\sql64\setup.exe PCUSOURCE={0}\SQLServer\sql64 /SAPWD=""p#ssw0rd"" /CONFIGURATIONFILE={0}\SQLServer\ConfigurationFile64.ini /HIDECONSOLE", setupFolder);
else
commandLine = string.Format(#"{0}\SQLServer\sql86\setup.exe PCUSOURCE={0}\SQLServer\sql86 /SAPWD=""p#ssw0rd"" /CONFIGURATIONFILE={0}\SQLServer\ConfigurationFile32.ini /HIDECONSOLE", setupFolder);
startInfo.WorkingDirectory = setupFolder;
startInfo.Arguments = "/c " + commandLine;
startInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
startInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
process.StartInfo = startInfo;
try
{
process.Start();
}
catch (Exception e)
{
result = e.Message;
}
result = result + "\n" + process.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
UpdateStepResult(result);
}
There's no error in the code but it does not work .. when I run the code the command window appear and disappear and nothing happen.
UPDATE:
When I used:
fileName = string.Format(#"{0}\SQLServer\sql64\setup.exe", setupFolder);
The installation is run but without configuration file, when I used:
fileName = string.Format(#"{0}\SQLServer\sql64\setup.exe /CONFIGURATIONFILE={0}\SQLServer\sql64\ConfigurationFile64.ini", setupFolder);
It gives me this error "The system cannot find the file specified" !!!
The file is exist in the same folder !!
Please can you help me to discover the mistake.
Thanks in advance.

The ProcessStartInfo requires the FileName property to be valid. Your code above doesn't set it but pass everything as Arguments.
Probably you need to separate the command line in two parts. The Executable to run and the arguments to pass
if (os64)
{
fileName = string.Format("{0}\SQLServer\sql64\setup.exe", setupFolder);
commandLine = string.Format(#"PCUSOURCE={0}\SQLServer\sql64 /SAPWD=""p#ssw0rd"" /CONFIGURATIONFILE={0}\SQLServer\ConfigurationFile64.ini /HIDECONSOLE", setupFolder);
}
else
{
// Same for 32 bit
.....
}
....
startInfo.FileName = fileName;
....

C# svnadmin dump, strange behavior

i've written a c# application to check if a repository should be dumper or not (using some paramenters)
I've compiled this application on my computer (Winsows 8) where it works as intended.
When i try to use it on two different windows server (2003 and 2008) with .net 4.5 installed, there is something wrong..
before that i talk about the problems i get i'll show you part of the code i made to make this app work:
output[2] = exec("svnadmin dump " + dir + " > " + dir + ".dump");
where dir is the actual name of the repository, the exec function is as follow:
public string exec(object command)
{
try
{
System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo procStartInfo =
new System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo("cmd", "/c " + command);
procStartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
procStartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
procStartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
System.Diagnostics.Process proc = new System.Diagnostics.Process();
proc.StartInfo = procStartInfo;
proc.Start();
return proc.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
}
catch (Exception objException)
{
return "Error: " + objException;
}
}
what i get is that, when i run this on Windows 8, it works as intended
when i run this on Server 2003 it dumps only revision 0
when i run this on Server 2008 it returns an error (it is not a repository!)
Windows 8 svn version: 1.7.8 (sliksvn)
Windows server 2003 svn verion: 1.5.8
Windows server 2008 svn version: 1.7.9
any help is appreaciated,
thanks in advance

I had a similar problem with the "it is not a repository!" problem. To fix this, I used svnserve.
svnserve -r .\ -d
This fixed my problem.