Error:
2019-09-23T18:56:36.7532247Z ##[command]. ‘C:\vstsagent\A1\_work\r1\a\xxxxx\ConfigureHosts.ps1’ -BizTalkHostGroup “BizTalk Application Users” -BizTalkHostInstanceAccount “xxx\SVC_xxx” -BizTalkHostInstanceAccountPassword “***” -BizTalkIsolatedHostGroup “BizTalk Isolated Host Users” -BizTalkIsolatedHostInstanceAccount “xxx\SVC_xxx” -BizTalkIsolatedHostInstanceAccountPassword “***”
2019-09-23T18:56:37.3226214Z ##[error]Invoke-Expression : At line:1 char:393
+ … xxxx” -BizTalkIsolatedHostInstanceAccountPassword ” &JDN+K …
+ ~
The ampersand (&) character is not allowed. The & operator is reserved for future use; wrap an ampersand in double
quotation marks (“&”) to pass it as part of a string.
Solution:
Problem is not with & instead all special charecter needs escape sequence. In my case i had ` and ” in the password which needed to be replace with escape sequence.
replace ` with ` ` and ” with “”
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