PowerShell Script Cannot Write to File Share via Group Policy Startup Script

Question

I have added a PowerShell script as a Group Policy computer startup script. The script runs fine and does all of the tasks fine. However, at the end of the script, it is supposed to copy a log file to a file share, which it is not doing. The file share shows that "SYSTEM" has full control, so I'm not sure what the issue is. I'm able to run the script as admin while on the same machine and it will copy the log to the server without a problem. It does not do this via computer startup script (under SYSTEM account) though. Any ideas?

Answer 1

You will need to give the computer account write permissions on the network share. When the SYSTEM account is used to access a network resource it will do so as the domain account of the computer (DOMAIN\COMPUTER$).