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MaryWinter
Posts:45
 | | 08/02/2011 6:04 PM |
| I have seen this issue described on web forums but none of them has an answer published. Please forgive me if this has already been covered. I have a timezone.vbs script that tests to see what segment the PCs are on and sets the timezone. Some of our segments are in the Eastern time zone and others are in the Central time zone. The script needed to be updated because it used control.exe which does not work in Windows 7. Now it uses TZUtil. The script runs locally but will not run as a startup script through group policy. Several people reported this issue and some were pointed to the wshShell.Run command as the problem. My question, what would I use instead of this command to run TZUtil? Thank you in advance for your help.
Mary Winter
IT Infrastructure Consultant
Desktop Services
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| DarraghOShaughnessy
Posts:177
| | 08/02/2011 6:10 PM |
| You could use the '.exec' method but we need more detail. Why does it not
run as a group policy?
From: gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com [mailto:gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com]
On Behalf Of Winter.Mary
Sent: 02 August 2011 15:13
To: gptalk@lists.gpoguy.com
Subject: [gptalk] wshShell.Run
I have seen this issue described on web forums but none of them has an
answer published. Please forgive me if this has already been covered. I
have a timezone.vbs script that tests to see what segment the PCs are on and
sets the timezone. Some of our segments are in the Eastern time zone and
others are in the Central time zone. The script needed to be updated
because it used control.exe which does not work in Windows 7. Now it uses
TZUtil. The script runs locally but will not run as a startup script
through group policy. Several people reported this issue and some were
pointed to the wshShell.Run command as the problem. My question, what would
I use instead of this command to run TZUtil? Thank you in advance for your
help.
Mary Winter
IT Infrastructure Consultant
Desktop Services
| | | |
| MaryWinter
Posts:45
| | 08/02/2011 6:36 PM |
| Sorry Darragh,
I don't know why. GPresult shows that the GPO has been applied but the script does not run and there are no errors for it in the event log. In fact for all of my startup scripts I get the line: LastExecuted: This script has not yet been executed.
This is not true though because the other two scripts do run. Neither of them uses wshShell.run.
Mary
From: gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com [mailto:gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com] On Behalf Of Darragh O'Shaughnessy
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 9:18 AM
To: gptalk@lists.gpoguy.com
Subject: RE: [gptalk] wshShell.Run
You could use the '.exec' method but we need more detail. Why does it not run as a group policy?
From: gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com [mailto:gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com] On Behalf Of Winter.Mary
Sent: 02 August 2011 15:13
To: gptalk@lists.gpoguy.com
Subject: [gptalk] wshShell.Run
I have seen this issue described on web forums but none of them has an answer published. Please forgive me if this has already been covered. I have a timezone.vbs script that tests to see what segment the PCs are on and sets the timezone. Some of our segments are in the Eastern time zone and others are in the Central time zone. The script needed to be updated because it used control.exe which does not work in Windows 7. Now it uses TZUtil. The script runs locally but will not run as a startup script through group policy. Several people reported this issue and some were pointed to the wshShell.Run command as the problem. My question, what would I use instead of this command to run TZUtil? Thank you in advance for your help.
Mary Winter
IT Infrastructure Consultant
Desktop Services
| | | |
| DarraghOShaughnessy
Posts:177
| | 08/02/2011 6:39 PM |
| If I ever execute .vbs scripts in my gpos, I use a wrapper .cmd file like
this
Contents of wrapper.cmd:
Cscript //nologo <myscript.vbs> > %tmp%\myscript.log
I usually have a flag at the top of my script that enables some logging to
the console which in turn is dumped to the log file above for further
analysis. Can you dump the script code itself?
From: gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com [mailto:gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com]
On Behalf Of Winter.Mary
Sent: 02 August 2011 15:40
To: 'gptalk@lists.gpoguy.com'
Subject: RE: [gptalk] wshShell.Run
Sorry Darragh,
I don't know why. GPresult shows that the GPO has been applied but the
script does not run and there are no errors for it in the event log. In
fact for all of my startup scripts I get the line: LastExecuted: This script
has not yet been executed.
This is not true though because the other two scripts do run. Neither of
them uses wshShell.run.
Mary
From: gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com [mailto:gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com]
On Behalf Of Darragh O'Shaughnessy
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 9:18 AM
To: gptalk@lists.gpoguy.com
Subject: RE: [gptalk] wshShell.Run
You could use the '.exec' method but we need more detail. Why does it not
run as a group policy?
From: gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com [mailto:gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com]
On Behalf Of Winter.Mary
Sent: 02 August 2011 15:13
To: gptalk@lists.gpoguy.com
Subject: [gptalk] wshShell.Run
I have seen this issue described on web forums but none of them has an
answer published. Please forgive me if this has already been covered. I
have a timezone.vbs script that tests to see what segment the PCs are on and
sets the timezone. Some of our segments are in the Eastern time zone and
others are in the Central time zone. The script needed to be updated
because it used control.exe which does not work in Windows 7. Now it uses
TZUtil. The script runs locally but will not run as a startup script
through group policy. Several people reported this issue and some were
pointed to the wshShell.Run command as the problem. My question, what would
I use instead of this command to run TZUtil? Thank you in advance for your
help.
Mary Winter
IT Infrastructure Consultant
Desktop Services
| | | |
| MaryWinter
Posts:45
| | 08/02/2011 6:45 PM |
| '----------------------------------------
' Update the Time Zone.
'----------------------------------------
Sub UpdateTimeZone(TZ)
Dim sCommandToRun
' Set the Time Zone
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
' Create command line
sCommandToRun = "c:\windows\system32\tzutil /s " & chr(34) & TZ & chr(34)
Wscript.Echo "sCommandToRun: " & sCommandToRun
' Run command
WshShell.run sCommandToRun
' Stop and Start the Time Service to take effect.
WshShell.run "net stop w32Time",iHide, bWaitOnReturn
wscript.sleep 500
WshShell.run "net start w32Time", iHide, bWaitOnReturn
set WshShell = Nothing
End Sub
From: gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com [mailto:gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com] On Behalf Of Darragh O'Shaughnessy
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 9:46 AM
To: 'gptalk@lists.gpoguy.com'
Subject: RE: [gptalk] wshShell.Run
Run method is defined here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d5fk67ky%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
Can you post the line of code that calls this method? I use it in other start up scripts on Windows 7 and it runs fine.
From: gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com [mailto:gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com] On Behalf Of Winter.Mary
Sent: 02 August 2011 15:40
To: 'gptalk@lists.gpoguy.com'
Subject: RE: [gptalk] wshShell.Run
Sorry Darragh,
I don't know why. GPresult shows that the GPO has been applied but the script does not run and there are no errors for it in the event log. In fact for all of my startup scripts I get the line: LastExecuted: This script has not yet been executed.
This is not true though because the other two scripts do run. Neither of them uses wshShell.run.
Mary
From: gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com [mailto:gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com] On Behalf Of Darragh O'Shaughnessy
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 9:18 AM
To: gptalk@lists.gpoguy.com
Subject: RE: [gptalk] wshShell.Run
You could use the '.exec' method but we need more detail. Why does it not run as a group policy?
From: gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com [mailto:gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com] On Behalf Of Winter.Mary
Sent: 02 August 2011 15:13
To: gptalk@lists.gpoguy.com
Subject: [gptalk] wshShell.Run
I have seen this issue described on web forums but none of them has an answer published. Please forgive me if this has already been covered. I have a timezone.vbs script that tests to see what segment the PCs are on and sets the timezone. Some of our segments are in the Eastern time zone and others are in the Central time zone. The script needed to be updated because it used control.exe which does not work in Windows 7. Now it uses TZUtil. The script runs locally but will not run as a startup script through group policy. Several people reported this issue and some were pointed to the wshShell.Run command as the problem. My question, what would I use instead of this command to run TZUtil? Thank you in advance for your help.
Mary Winter
IT Infrastructure Consultant
Desktop Services
| | | |
| DarraghOShaughnessy
Posts:177
| | 08/02/2011 7:26 PM |
| I would adjust the script as below (added some logging to help debug). Also, are the following variables defined globally as you use them in the subroutine?
· iHide
· bWaitOnReturn
_____
'----------------------------------------
' Update the Time Zone.
'----------------------------------------
Sub UpdateTimeZone(TZ)
On Error Resume Next
Dim sCommandToRun
' Set the Time Zone
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
If Err.Number <> 0 Then logRuntimeErr "Cuuld not create WScript.Shell instance",true,true
' Create command line
sCommandToRun = "c:\windows\system32\tzutil /s " & chr(34) & TZ & chr(34)
logInfo "sCommandToRun: " & sCommandToRun
' Run command
WshShell.Run sCommandToRun
' Stop and Start the Time Service to take effect.
WshShell.run "net stop w32Time",iHide, bWaitOnReturn
wscript.sleep 500
WshShell.run "net start w32Time", iHide, bWaitOnReturn
set WshShell = Nothing
End Sub
Sub logInfo (sMsg)
WScript.StdOut.WriteLine(Time & " - " & sMsg)
End Sub
Sub logRuntimeErr(sMsg,bclear,bQuit)
WScript.StdOut.WriteLine("Error:" & sMsg)
WScript.StdOut.WriteLine("|- No :" & Err.Number)
WScript.StdOut.WriteLine("|- Desc:" & Err.Description)
WScript.StdOut.WriteLine("|- Src :" & Err.Source)
If bClear Then Err.Clear
If bQuit Then WScript.Quit(Err.Number)
End sub
From: gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com [mailto:gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com] On Behalf Of Winter.Mary
Sent: 02 August 2011 15:52
To: 'gptalk@lists.gpoguy.com'
Subject: RE: [gptalk] wshShell.Run
I will create the wrapper. Thanks for your input.
From: gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com [mailto:gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com] On Behalf Of Darragh O'Shaughnessy
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 9:44 AM
To: 'gptalk@lists.gpoguy.com'
Subject: RE: [gptalk] wshShell.Run
If I ever execute .vbs scripts in my gpos, I use a wrapper .cmd file like this
Contents of wrapper.cmd:
Cscript //nologo <myscript.vbs> > %tmp%\myscript.log
I usually have a flag at the top of my script that enables some logging to the console which in turn is dumped to the log file above for further analysis. Can you dump the script code itself?
From: gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com [mailto:gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com] On Behalf Of Winter.Mary
Sent: 02 August 2011 15:40
To: 'gptalk@lists.gpoguy.com'
Subject: RE: [gptalk] wshShell.Run
Sorry Darragh,
I don’t know why. GPresult shows that the GPO has been applied but the script does not run and there are no errors for it in the event log. In fact for all of my startup scripts I get the line: LastExecuted: This script has not yet been executed.
This is not true though because the other two scripts do run. Neither of them uses wshShell.run.
Mary
From: gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com [mailto:gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com] On Behalf Of Darragh O'Shaughnessy
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 9:18 AM
To: gptalk@lists.gpoguy.com
Subject: RE: [gptalk] wshShell.Run
You could use the ‘.exec’ method but we need more detail. Why does it not run as a group policy?
From: gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com [mailto:gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com] On Behalf Of Winter.Mary
Sent: 02 August 2011 15:13
To: gptalk@lists.gpoguy.com
Subject: [gptalk] wshShell.Run
I have seen this issue described on web forums but none of them has an answer published. Please forgive me if this has already been covered. I have a timezone.vbs script that tests to see what segment the PCs are on and sets the timezone. Some of our segments are in the Eastern time zone and others are in the Central time zone. The script needed to be updated because it used control.exe which does not work in Windows 7. Now it uses TZUtil. The script runs locally but will not run as a startup script through group policy. Several people reported this issue and some were pointed to the wshShell.Run command as the problem. My question, what would I use instead of this command to run TZUtil? Thank you in advance for your help.
Mary Winter
IT Infrastructure Consultant
Desktop Services
| | | |
| MaryWinter
Posts:45
| | 08/02/2011 8:00 PM |
| Yes they are defined globally. Thanks for your help. I’ll let you know how my testing goes.
From: gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com [mailto:gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com] On Behalf Of Darragh O'Shaughnessy
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 10:29 AM
To: 'gptalk@lists.gpoguy.com'
Subject: RE: [gptalk] wshShell.Run
I would adjust the script as below (added some logging to help debug). Also, are the following variables defined globally as you use them in the subroutine?
· iHide
· bWaitOnReturn
________________________________
'----------------------------------------
' Update the Time Zone.
'----------------------------------------
Sub UpdateTimeZone(TZ)
On Error Resume Next
Dim sCommandToRun
' Set the Time Zone
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
If Err.Number <> 0 Then logRuntimeErr "Cuuld not create WScript.Shell instance",true,true
' Create command line
sCommandToRun = "c:\windows\system32\tzutil /s " & chr(34) & TZ & chr(34)
logInfo "sCommandToRun: " & sCommandToRun
' Run command
WshShell.Run sCommandToRun
' Stop and Start the Time Service to take effect.
WshShell.run "net stop w32Time",iHide, bWaitOnReturn
wscript.sleep 500
WshShell.run "net start w32Time", iHide, bWaitOnReturn
set WshShell = Nothing
End Sub
Sub logInfo (sMsg)
WScript.StdOut.WriteLine(Time & " - " & sMsg)
End Sub
Sub logRuntimeErr(sMsg,bclear,bQuit)
WScript.StdOut.WriteLine("Error:" & sMsg)
WScript.StdOut.WriteLine("|- No :" & Err.Number)
WScript.StdOut.WriteLine("|- Desc:" & Err.Description)
WScript.StdOut.WriteLine("|- Src :" & Err.Source)
If bClear Then Err.Clear
If bQuit Then WScript.Quit(Err.Number)
End sub
From: gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com [mailto:gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com] On Behalf Of Winter.Mary
Sent: 02 August 2011 15:52
To: 'gptalk@lists.gpoguy.com'
Subject: RE: [gptalk] wshShell.Run
I will create the wrapper. Thanks for your input.
From: gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com [mailto:gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com] On Behalf Of Darragh O'Shaughnessy
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 9:44 AM
To: 'gptalk@lists.gpoguy.com'
Subject: RE: [gptalk] wshShell.Run
If I ever execute .vbs scripts in my gpos, I use a wrapper .cmd file like this
Contents of wrapper.cmd:
Cscript //nologo <myscript.vbs> > %tmp%\myscript.log
I usually have a flag at the top of my script that enables some logging to the console which in turn is dumped to the log file above for further analysis. Can you dump the script code itself?
From: gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com [mailto:gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com] On Behalf Of Winter.Mary
Sent: 02 August 2011 15:40
To: 'gptalk@lists.gpoguy.com'
Subject: RE: [gptalk] wshShell.Run
Sorry Darragh,
I don’t know why. GPresult shows that the GPO has been applied but the script does not run and there are no errors for it in the event log. In fact for all of my startup scripts I get the line: LastExecuted: This script has not yet been executed.
This is not true though because the other two scripts do run. Neither of them uses wshShell.run.
Mary
From: gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com [mailto:gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com] On Behalf Of Darragh O'Shaughnessy
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 9:18 AM
To: gptalk@lists.gpoguy.com
Subject: RE: [gptalk] wshShell.Run
You could use the ‘.exec’ method but we need more detail. Why does it not run as a group policy?
From: gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com [mailto:gptalk-owner@lists.gpoguy.com] On Behalf Of Winter.Mary
Sent: 02 August 2011 15:13
To: gptalk@lists.gpoguy.com
Subject: [gptalk] wshShell.Run
I have seen this issue described on web forums but none of them has an answer published. Please forgive me if this has already been covered. I have a timezone.vbs script that tests to see what segment the PCs are on and sets the timezone. Some of our segments are in the Eastern time zone and others are in the Central time zone. The script needed to be updated because it used control.exe which does not work in Windows 7. Now it uses TZUtil. The script runs locally but will not run as a startup script through group policy. Several people reported this issue and some were pointed to the wshShell.Run command as the problem. My question, what would I use instead of this command to run TZUtil? Thank you in advance for your help.
Mary Winter
IT Infrastructure Consultant
Desktop Services
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