Scheduling Operations Manager Maintenance mode?

Question

I'm trying to schedule Stephan Stranger's SCOM Maintenance mode script.  The issue is that I don't see a good way to pass the parameters the scripts
is looking for via the Scheduled Task.
Is there a good way to pass the scripts needed parameters like group name and maintenance mode duration?  Maybe I need to write a batch file and call the .ps1 and arguments from the .BAT - I've been playing with the .BAT for over an hour and can't that
to work either.
Currently when I create a scheduled task with these settings:
Program/script:
C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
Add Aurguments (optional): 
-noexit C:\Scripts\MaintMode\Start-SCOMMaintenanceModeForGroups.ps1 "TestingDSRGroup" -endtime 5 -reason "unplannedother" -comment "Testing DSR Group" -Verbose
It seems to just run in the background with out popping up a powershell window and will eventually end with a (0x1) Last Run Result.
Here is the syntax that works great from with in powershell with Stephan's script but I can't seem to work from a scheduled task:
C:\Scripts\MaintMode\Start-SCOMMaintenanceModeForGroups.ps1 "Testing DSR Group" -endtime 5 -reason "unplannedother" -comment "Testing DSR Group" -Verbose
Any assistance appreciated.

Answer 1

Hi,
An easy way around this is to use the -File parameter. Write up a quick oneliner that calls your script and save it as a .ps1 file. As soon as you have a working caller script, you can use -File C:\path\to\script.ps1 as the arguments and the scheduler will
just run your script instead of trying to specify all of your parameters directly.
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Thanks Mike.  That did the trick.  I tried the -FILE argument previously with no luck, I should have mentioned that in my original post.  
Once I created a .PS1 with the arguments I needed and then called that with the scheduled task it went off with out a hitch.  Thanks a milion.  I never would have thought of that.