DFSR Health Report Problem - 3 methods of generating reports give 3 different outputs

Hello,

I am trying to implement a monitoring solution for DFSR by having a script generate a health report and send it to me. I have one replication group with 2 members and 2 replicated folders.

The script looks like this:

# Write DFS Health Report
Write-DfsrHealthReport -GroupName "RG1" -ReferenceComputerName "SRV1" -MemberComputerName "SRV1", "SRV2" -Path "D:\Logs" -CountFiles

# Get the 2 newest files -- these were just generated by Write-DFSRHealthReport
$new_report = Get-ChildItem "D:\Logs |
               Sort-Object -Property LastWriteTime -Descending |
               foreach {$_.fullname} |
               Select-Object -First 2

# Send email with attachments
$mail_parms = @{'To' = "me";
                'SmtpServer' = "";
                'Subject' = "DFSR Health Report for $(Get-Date)";
                'From' = "SRV1";
                'Attachments' = $new_report
                }

Send-MailMessage @mail_parms

Now here's the fun part:

1) When I run a health report using the GUI, I get a nice, clean report with no errors.

2) When I run my script from a non-elevated ISE, I get the following errors:

- Server 1 shows DFS Replication problems due to temporary attributes

- Server 2 shows as unavailable for reporting because, according to that, I am not an administrator

3) When I run the script form an elevated ISE, both servers show errors about replication problems related to temporary attributes.

I can tell you that:

- The account I am using has administrator rights on both servers

- I have checked that the account has proper permissions in WMI

- When I check for the temporary attribute using Get-Childitem cmdlet (from an elevated PS) nothing shows up.

- I have restarted dfsr service on both servers, no change

So my questions:

1) Why am I getting the WMI error of not being an administrator when I AM an administrator? And why am I getting them only when generating a report using the script and not when I am generating it using the GUI?

2) Why am I getting errors about temporary attributes when I have removed them?

Kind regards,

Wojciech