did you specify a new strRoot(i) in lines 9 & 10 (or however as many OU’s as you want this to apply to)? your syntax looks correct for the line you posted.

good luck!

any idea’s?

thanks
Roger

1. this was a small shop, so SCCM was not an option. it was GPO deployment all the way (and from what i can tell, that is still an issue based on the deployment guide linked to in the post by arthur).
2. sorry if i missed the update portion when hacking the msi. ;)
3. while i think technically arthur is correct in using mst’s, in the environment i was in i *always* used full msi’s, no mst’s. some of that was born of familiarity, but in my testing i also found it a lot more stable to do entire pulls and pushes of packages, not patches.

just my .02 cents.

thanks for the suggestions. i would agree with both of your suggestions in principal, but i would want to test taking out that if statement. make sense to me, though.

did you take out the if statement and try it successfully?

glad you found it helpful, i was surprised that i didn’t find any that had done this before (i guess everyone that has this dynamic of an environment either has SCCM, etc, or they don’t care).

thanks again for the input/suggestions!

josh

And this worked wonderfully, thank you.

objRS.Close
Set objRS = Nothing

objConn.Close
Set objConn = Nothing

Idk, if it’s working yet since I don’t feel like walking around the building to check but it seems to be doing better now that I’ve accepted psshutdown EULA. Thank you for this awesome little script.

i don’t think so.

objRS is your record set (lets say 100 computers in an OU). objRS.MoveFirst moves you to the first record/computer, then the “While Not objRS.EOF” says loop until you are out of records. if i am not mistaken the way that while loop is written is why you wouldn’t need the objRS.MoveNext call. after the while loop, then it hits that Wend.

from my testing a long time ago i never saw a problem with an infinite loop, and i had this in production for years (and i heard about any random reboots, i promise ;).

correct me if i am wrong, i can always learn something.

i actually left that position a few months after the install, so i can’t honestly say what has changed since then.

that being said, i talked to the guys that are now administering that system last week, and they said it is great. no issues, “it just works” was their comment to me.

i hope they have tackled some of those issues since then, but you would have to talk to digium to find out for sure.

good luck!