Executing commands in Powershell over SSH does not work

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I'm trying to simulate Outlook email traffic over a testbed, so I am using a Powershell script to send the emails. The testbed is controlled by a Linux master server, which sends commands over a socket that are then executed on Windows 7 clients. The problem
I'm having is that when I run the script from a Remote Desktop session, the script works perfectly. However, when the script is run from an SSH session or through the testbed code, the process hangs, usually upon the call to CreateItem(0).
Here is the skeleton of the code (the remaining code just randomly generates text to fill the email body and assigns a subject):
ClearHost
Add-Type -assembly "Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook"
$Outlook = New-Object -ComObject Outlook.Application
$Mail = $Outlook.CreateItem(0) # Problem usually happens here
$Mail.To = "$Address"
$Mail.Subject = $Subject
$Mail.Body = $Body
$Mail.Send()
I call the script using "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass .\sendmail.ps1 <email_address>"
Other issues I've encountered include "There is no data file for sending or receiving data", which asked me to edit the profile. However, this error has only showed up infrequently. It usually just hangs.

Answer 1

Read it again.
Office products are NOT
designed to run without a UI.  It is well documented.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯