Using orchestrator to create failover cluster. out of options

Hi all,
I am trying to build failover cluster using orchestrator 2012 R2 and then services on the cluster.
However, I am so stuck now at the first stage:getting the cluster online.
It is very basic, 2 nodes 2008R2 servers, shared storage for quorum, a virtual name and an IP.
I try to put as little things as possible at start. I added the failover clustering feature into the orchestrator to avoid the double hop problem. I found that I can create the cluster with a command like this.
C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
-NonInteractive -Command {Import-Module 'C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\1.0\Modules\FailoverClusters\FailoverClusters.psd1';New-Cluster -name clustername -node servername1,servername2 -staticaddress 1.1.1.1}
I use the powershell.exe to avoid the 32bit powershell problem from orchestartor.
I can successfully create the cluster using this same command if I run it manually inside my powershell prompt and it usually took 20secs to complete and shows the progress within powershell prompt.
but when I put in the Run .Net Script and powershell in my orchestrator and run it. It shown success without give any warning/error but unfortunately I found that there are errors in the event log, as below
Could not retrieve the network topology for the nodes.
Security must be initialized before any interfaces are marshalled or unmarshalled. It cannot be changed once initialized
I'd like to say that if I replace "New-Cluster" with "Test-Cluster". It runs normally and perform all tests with a report as output.
Tried to turn off UAC (admin approval mode for all administrators)
I’ve also created the disabeld cluster AD computer object with enough permissions before running the command (once again. I can create the cluster manually running the command)
Also, I’ve set the orchestrator to run the runbook service using my user account. So the credential used for manual execution and orchestrator should be the same (the account is local administrators group member to both node)
P.S. I found that the error Security must be initialized before any interfaces are marshalled or
unmarshalled is not specific for Orchestrator + powershell but also for other products.
Please help, thanks

Turn out I need to use the PowerShell OIP from
link
Setup CredSSP authentication
Then use the following script to call powershell 3.0
$ABC = powershell {Import-Module ‘C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\1.0\Modules\FailoverClusters\FailoverClusters.psd1′;New-Cluster -name clustername -node servername1,servername2 -staticaddress 1.1.1.1}
finally can run the activity without issue

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