PowerShell command returned an exception. Unexpected token 's' in expression or statement

Question

Hi All,
I am trying to Creating a VM based on a Template in VMM through Orchestrator Runbook using below URL;
http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/lrayl/archive/2013/07/03/orchestrator-system-center-integrations-part-3-creating-a-vm-based-on-a-template-in-vmm.aspx
Runbook:
But at the Create VM from Template activity runbook will failed:
Throwing below error in while running runbook in Error Summary text:
PowerShell command returned an exception. Unexpected token 's' in expression or statement.
Exception: InvalidOperationException
Target site: PSRunspaceInvoker.HandleInvokeException
Stack trace:
   at Microsoft.SystemCenter.Orchestrator.Integration.PowerShellConnector.PSRunspaceInvoker.HandleInvokeException(Exception ex, ILogger logger)
   at Microsoft.SystemCenter.Orchestrator.Integration.PowerShellConnector.PSRunspaceInvoker.Invoke(RunspaceInvoke runspace, String script, ILogger logger)
   at Microsoft.SystemCenter.Orchestrator.Integration.PowerShellConnector.PSScriptRunner.Execute(String script)
   at Microsoft.SystemCenter.Orchestrator.Integration.VMM2012Domain.VM.CloneFromTemplate(String vmmServer, ParameterList inputParameters)
   at Microsoft.SystemCenter.Orchestrator.Integration.VMM2012QIK.VM.CloneFromTemplate.DoExecute(IActivityRequest request, ILogger logger)
   at Microsoft.SystemCenter.Orchestrator.Integration.VMM2012QIK.ActivityBase`2.Execute(IActivityRequest request, IActivityResponse response)
Both Orchestrator & SCVMM powershell are set on Unrestricted powershell.
Kindly suggest any solution or work around for resolution.
Thanks Rahul$

Answer 1

This may be a bit late and perhaps not even relevant but I came across this post when trying to solve an issue I had with a powershell script in Orchestrator. Maybe it will help you, or maybe it will help someone else.
I was trying to create a connector between SCOM and our ticketing system. I wanted to export alert descriptions and in the process of testing I came across an alert description that had multiple lines and all kinds of crazy formatting. When I tried to assign
the Published Data to a varialbe in my powershell script i would get an error "Unexpected token [a partial alert description] in expression or statement.". After looking at the actual alert description data and seeing that i was only getting some of it
and not all of it it dawned on me that i somehow needed to escape out of all the crazy quoting, carriage returns, and special characters. to do that i assigned the Published Data to a variable in my powershell script as follows:
$Description = @"
{Description from "Get Alert"}
Apparently the @" "@ is called a here-string. Somewhat interesting. Hope it helps you or someone else!