Script to run on certain Operating Systems?

[CallumCatterall]

Hi, we currently have a login script which is needed for our XP environment but isn't needed for our new Windows 7 machines, is there a way to only run the script if the machine is XP? The script is a login script that is a .cmd that runs an application on logon if that helps?

 

Thanks!

Edited November 29, 2011 by CallumCatterall

[Gatt]

I used this and its brilliant for logon scripts 0:

 

http://www.kixtart.org/

[featured_spectre]

Been a while since I have done VBSCRIPT but this may help!

 

'OS is Windows XP
'with at least SP2 or higher
If InStr(strOSLongName, "XP") > 0 _
       And intSPMajorVersion >= 2 _
' Do load up script here
dim shell
set shell=createobject("wscript.shell")
shell.run "batchfile.bat"
set shell=nothing
End If 

 

This will work when running W7 and XP and it will slot nicely in. If it doesn't find Windows XP, it won't run the batch file (tested on my home network)

 

*edit*

 

Replace "batchfile.bat" with the location and name of your batch file.

Edited November 29, 2011 by featured_spectre

[Gatt]

D'oh - completely misread the OP

[featured_spectre]

Not to worry, my vbscript should slot nicely in and in theory have no issues (tried on my home network of an xp laptop, my w7 laptop and windows server 2k8r2)

[CallumCatterall]

Not to worry, my vbscript should slot nicely in and in theory have no issues (tried on my home network of an xp laptop, my w7 laptop and windows server 2k8r2)

Wow! Thanks for the speedy reply, shall test it tomorrow.

Thanks again!

Edited November 29, 2011 by CallumCatterall

[featured_spectre]

Not to worry, if it doesn't work let me know. Like I said it works fine on my home network (of a couple of machines) so how well it will do on a large scale I don't know.

 

And as for the speediness..thats what we are known for

[Arthur]

If you want to check the OS version from within the batch file itself, try this...

 

LoginScript.cmd

@echo off
:: Get Windows version numbers
FOR /f "tokens=2 delims=[]" %%G IN ('ver') DO (Set VERSION=%%G)
FOR /f "tokens=2,3,4 delims=. " %%G IN ('ECHO %VERSION%') DO (Set MAJOR=%%G& Set MINOR=%%H& Set BUILD=%%I) 

IF "%MAJOR%" GEQ "6" (
  :: If OS is Vista/7 or newer do this...
  GOTO :EOF
) ELSE (
  :: If OS is NOT Vista/7 (i.e. XP) do this...
  START "" %SystemRoot%\System32\Calc.exe
)

[plexer]

Apply a wmi filter to the gpo that runs the script.

 

Ben

[CallumCatterall]

Apply a wmi filter to the gpo that runs the script.

 

Ben

What would the query be for that?

 

Thanks.

[featured_spectre]

That would be done via group policy on your server

[Arthur]

SELECT Version, ProductType from Win32_OperatingSystem WHERE Version LIKE '5.1.%' AND ProductType = '1'

 

or

 

SELECT Version FROM Win32_OperatingSystem WHERE Version < "6"

 

... or you could use GPP.

Edited November 29, 2011 by Arthur

[CallumCatterall]

SELECT Version, ProductType from Win32_OperatingSystem WHERE Version LIKE '5.1.%' AND ProductType = '1'

 

... or you could use GPP.

Thanks, so just paste that in the WMI query box and all should be good? And this is so it'll just run on XP?

 

Thanks again!

[Arthur]

Yes to both.

[CallumCatterall]

Yes to both.

Great! Just for future reference, is '5.1.%' the OS type? so if I wanted to create a WMI filter to just go on Windows 7 I would change it to '6.1.%'?

Thanks.

[Arthur]

Correct. Windows 7 is "6.1.%", but if for example you wanted to specifically target Windows 7 with SP1 you would replace the % symbol with the actual build number i.e. "6.1.7601"