Need to access the Power shell within Virtual Machine Manager.

Question

Hi all, I have a VM that shuts down everyday between 9-10PM.  I would like to get a script to start it up at 11PM.  However, the issue I have that if i run the powershell command "start-vm -servername" from the Powershell within the Virtual
machine manager it works without an issue.  However I can not get my script to use that powershell.  If I use the normal powershell, that command does not work.  Hopefully that makes sense.
I'm running Windows server 2008 R2 standard with VMM 2008 R2.
The VM is being decommissioned in Q1 2015, so this would be the most cost effective way to restore functionality.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Gurmukh

Answer 1

Hi Noah, thanks for the response, here is the output from that command.  As you may have guessed I'm a powershell newbie
PS C:\Users\gurmukh-admin> get-module -list
ModuleType Name                      
ExportedCommands
Manifest   ADRMS                    
Manifest   AppLocker                
Manifest   BestPractices            
Manifest   BitsTransfer              
Manifest   FailoverClusters          
Manifest   PSDiagnostics            
Manifest   ServerManager            
Manifest   TroubleshootingPack       {}
Manifest   WebAdministration        
I'll have to google on how to import a module.
Gurmukh