I am running msiexec using paexec, and I'm using a non-existent .msi file in order to test a failure case. When using psexec, I get the proper console output from the remote machine to be displayed on the machine running psExec. However from paExec, I don't get the console output.
It seems like the console output may be using wchar_t's, as there is a space in between each character printed out by psExec. PaExec only shows the first character from the console output, so possibly it sees a '0' byte and assumes the end of string (just guessing about this, I didn't check the code!).
The remote machine in this case is running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit.
Console output from psExec:
psexec \hpi5-pc -h -u domainuser -p somepsw MSIEXEC.exe /i "C:fakeFolderfake.msi"
PsExec v1.98 - Execute processes
remotely Copyright (C) 2001-2010 Mark
Russinovich Sysinternals -
www.sysinternals.com
T h i s i n s t a l l a t i o n p
a c k a g e c o u l d n o t b e
o p e n e d . V e r i f y t h a
t t h e p a c k a g e e x i s t
s a n d t h a t y o u c a n
a c c e s s i t , o r c o n t a
c t t h e a p p l i c a t i o n
v e n d o r t o v e r i f y t h
a t t h i s i s a v a l i d
W i n d o w s I n s t a l l e r p
a c k a g e . MSIEXEC.exe exited on
hpi5-pc with error code 1619.
Console output from PaExec:
paexec \hpi5-pc -h -u domainuser -p somepsw MSIEXEC.exe /i "C:fakeFolderfake.msi"
PAExec v1.19 - Execute Programs
Remotely Copyright (c) 2012-2013 Power
Admin LLC www.poweradmin.com/PAExec
Connecting to hpi5-pc... Starting
PAExec service on hpi5-pc...
T MSIEXEC.exe returned 1619
PAExec returning exit code 1619
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08 Mar '13, 17:25
MartinB
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