Puppet users - Sep 2014 - Using Powershell in facters yields no data

Hello all,

I have been banging my head against this one for a couple of days. I am 
trying to use Powershell to comb the Windows registry for installed 
applications, such as VMware Tools, to create a custom facter. If I run 
this code from a PS prompt it works, and returns the expected data:

PS C:\> Get-ChildItem 
hklm:\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\uninstall | ForEach-Object 
{Get-ItemProperty $_.ps
path} | Where-Object {$_.DisplayName -eq "VMware Tools"} |
ForEach-Object
-process {$_.DisplayVersion }
*9.4.6.1770165*

However, running the same thing through Puppet as a facter yields zero data:

----------
Facter.add("vmtools_version") do
confine :osfamily => "Windows"
  setcode do
   
Facter::Util::Resolution.exec('C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
-Command "& {Get-ChildItem 
hklm:\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\uninstall | ForEach-Object 
{Get-ItemProperty $_.pspath} | Where-Object {$_.DisplayName -eq \"VMware 
Tools\"} | ForEach-Object -process {$_.DisplayVersion } } "')
end
end
----------

The left side shows up in the facters as "vmtools_version", but the
right
side is always empty. I have tried using the  GetItem module instead, and 
tried various combinations of the "-Command" switch, removed the
"For-Each"
handler to see if would spit out a huge block of text, and even tried 
wrapping the whole thing in a "try & catch" to see if any error
states are
generated, but have never gotten any right side output at all.

Does anyone have an idea that might make this work?

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