Earlier this week i tried to run a command on a remote computer but it did not seem to work:

$name = 'tim'
$computer = 'localhost'
Invoke-Command -ComputerName $computer -ScriptBlock { Write-Host "Hello $name" }

Because powershell serialises the { Write-Host “Hello $name” } as a string this ends up at the remote computer as { Write-Host “Hello $null” }. In order to send our “dynamic"command string over the wire we have to make sure it is serialised correctly:

$scriptBlock = $executioncontext.InvokeCommand.NewScriptBlock("Write-Host \`"Hello $name\`"");
Invoke-Command -ComputerName $computer -ScriptBlock $scriptBlock;