Re: Service Pack Install Script

Pete wrote:

Hi,

Hopefully someone here can help me with this. I'm using a script to deploy windows 2000 sp4 to a number of computers on an nt4 domain by copying install.cmd to C:\ on each computer and running it using the code below.

I want to get the return value from the install procedure (ie 3010 to indicate reboot required) but the code below returns the installreturn value as soon as the process starts. Is there a way of getting the return value of the installation rather than of the install.cmd?

Set process = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" &_
strcomputer & "\root\cimv2:Win32_Process")
installreturn = process.Create("c:\install.cmd",Null,Null,processid)
Set objScriptExec = oShell.Exec("net helpmsg " & installreturn)
installresult = objScriptExec.StdOut.ReadAll
strresult = MsgBox(installresult, vbOK, "Installation on: " & ucase(strcomputer))

Hi,

Here is one way of getting back the result:


Change install.cmd to be like this:

--------------------8<----------------------
@echo off
setlocal

set statusfile=c:\spstatus.txt

del "%statusfile%"
:: start install of SP4, wait for it to finish
start /wait sp4.exe /quiet /norestart or something
echo %errorlevel% >"%statusfile%"

--------------------8<----------------------


After your VBScript have launched install.cmd, go unto a loop waiting
for the spstatus.txt  file to show up on the remote computer (use the
admin share and WSH's FileSystemObject to do this).

When spstatus.txt shows up, you know the SP4 installation is finished,
and you can use the admin share and WSH's FileSystemObject to read
the content of the file to see what return code the SP4 installation
returned.




--
torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
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