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VB script that will verify the install of MSI package - 4/24/2006 5:38:12 AM   
  xaviorinc

 

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I am looking for a vb script which will verify the that msi package was installed successfully.  Please note script needs to work on the machines where user is not an administrator, therefore there is a limitation to accessing the registry values.  Does anyone know of any other way?
 
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RE: VB script that will verify the install of MSI package - 4/24/2006 6:23:39 PM   
  ginolard


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Status: offline 		Do you want to check software that is already installed or is this part of another installation process?

What I mean is, do you install the MSI file somehow already and you just want to add a "did it work?" feature to that method or do you want a single script that can check any installation on any machine no matter when that installation was performed?

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RE: VB script that will verify the install of MSI package - 4/24/2006 11:49:17 PM   
  xaviorinc

 

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Status: offline 		I want that script to be part of the installation process.  It will run after the install of MSI package and return either success or failure depending if software was installed.  It would be part of the process of pushing the msi to a desktop, majority of times the one that does not have admin rights.

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RE: VB script that will verify the install of MSI package - 4/25/2006 12:36:49 AM   
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Status: offline 		Use the logging feature of MSIEXEC to create a logfile and then read the logfile in and check the last but one line "MainEngine thread is returning 0" indicates success.

However, a simpler way is to run the MSI via the Shell.Run method and then check the return code.  For example

ReturnCode = objShell.Run (<path to your MSI>,1,True)
Wscript.echo ReturnCode

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RE: VB script that will verify the install of MSI package - 4/25/2006 2:12:44 AM   
  xaviorinc

 

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Status: offline 		I am trying to understand better the second solution:
 
ReturnCode = objShell.Run (<path to your MSI>,1,True)
Wscript.echo ReturnCode
 
 
How can the msi be pushed to the desktop PC with your script?  I am not sure if you understand my question.  How would it know that the install was successful?
 
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RE: VB script that will verify the install of MSI package - 4/25/2006 2:17:20 AM   
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Status: online 		The solution presented will run the MSI and tell you the return code from it's execution. You did not say that the script had to deploy the MSI as well. As a matter of fact you state "It would be part of the process of pushing the msi to a desktop" implying that deployment is already taken care of. Is that not the case?

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RE: VB script that will verify the install of MSI package - 4/25/2006 2:22:08 AM   
  xaviorinc

 

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Status: offline 		I am sorry, i got confused myself. 
What exactly i am looking for is to check if the package was successfully installed after the push.  Meaning different team will push the MSI application, and I want a script which will remotely check if MSI push was successful, if the package is fully installed.  
 
Please note, I won’t be the one installing it but checking to make sure it is successful.
 
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RE: VB script that will verify the install of MSI package - 4/25/2006 2:25:13 AM   
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Status: online 		Check out this script. It will list the installed MSIs:


      

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RE: VB script that will verify the install of MSI package - 4/25/2006 2:29:06 AM   
  xaviorinc

 

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Status: offline 		you think that would work if i'll use it on a network machine to which user does not have admin rights?

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RE: VB script that will verify the install of MSI package - 4/25/2006 2:30:44 AM   
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Status: online 		If you run it as yourself on your machine and you have admin rights on their computer it should work.

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RE: VB script that will verify the install of MSI package - 4/25/2006 2:40:31 AM   
  xaviorinc

 

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Status: offline 		I will have to run it from my PC where i have admin right but i won't have admin rights to the machine it will check for sucessful msi install.

I will run the script which will access another pc on the network (i don't have adming rights to that pc) and find out if MSI package was installed. 

Do you think that would work?

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RE: VB script that will verify the install of MSI package - 4/25/2006 2:50:01 AM   
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Status: online 		Give it a try. Just change the computer name to the name of someones computer that you don't have rights on and see if it tells you what they have installed.

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RE: VB script that will verify the install of MSI package - 4/25/2006 2:57:19 AM   
  xaviorinc

 

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Status: offline 		where do i specify in that .vbs script which package i am looking for?  Looks like that script will check them all right?

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RE: VB script that will verify the install of MSI package - 4/25/2006 3:02:05 AM   
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Status: online 		It will check them all. Try it first against someone else's machine to see if it will work for you at all. To check a specific install, use a WHERE clause in the query.

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RE: VB script that will verify the install of MSI package - 4/25/2006 3:05:53 AM   
  xaviorinc

 

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Status: offline 		Ok i'll try that.  Second question:
do you know the syntax for the WHERE clause?

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RE: VB script that will verify the install of MSI package - 4/25/2006 3:18:10 AM   
  xaviorinc

 

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Status: offline 		string computer should be as follow:
strComputer = "\\hostname\"
or i am missing something?

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RE: VB script that will verify the install of MSI package - 4/25/2006 3:28:55 AM   
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strComputer = "hostname"

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RE: VB script that will verify the install of MSI package - 4/25/2006 3:53:13 AM   
  xaviorinc

 

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Status: offline 		I am getting Permission Denied: 'GetObject'
Code 800A0046.

Any suggestions?

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RE: VB script that will verify the install of MSI package - 4/25/2006 4:08:15 AM   
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Status: online 		That sounds like straight permissions problems to me. How is it being deployed in nthe first place?

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RE: VB script that will verify the install of MSI package - 4/25/2006 4:10:39 AM   
  xaviorinc

 

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Status: offline 		They push the package throught Rumba channels.

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