PowerShell appears to "hang" when executed from a console application

When executing Powershell from within PSExec or VBScript .exec method, powershell appears to hang.

In summary, Powershell doesn’t play nice with console applications.

From what I can gather it maintains a separate footprint for its console streams and therefore, any console based applications relying on STDOUT, STDERR, STDIN manipulation do not operate as expected.

To reproduce using PSExec.exe;

Test.ps1
Write-Output “HELLO”

Psexec –s c:\windows\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe C:\Test.ps1

Hit CTRL-C and the script outputs “HELLO” as expected.

This suggests that the streams are only returned to the calling console when the script exits.