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Trying to push .reg to SCCM clinets - mixed results - 9/4/2008 11:18:13 AM   
Winston Smith

 

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Status: offline 		Hi,

I'm trying to push a .reg to machines that will create a key in RunOnceEx\0001 to launch a web page on next reboot. Although initial testing appeared to work, machines in the second group are failing. SCCM Advertisement log reports that the advertisement is running successfully, but the regedit is not happening. The advertisement sends a .cmd file which in turn calls the .reg file. Here they are...

[splash.cmd]
@echo off
net use /delete z:
net use z: \\sms_server\splashshare
%windir%\regedit.exe /s z:\splashscreen.reg
net use /delete z:
[/splash.cmd]

[splash.reg]
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx\0001]
"MyApp"="\"C:\\Program Files\\Internet Explorer\\IEXPLORE.EXE\" www.boston.com"
[/splash.reg]
 
The server share is wide open (Everyone/Modify). I've made multiple changes to the .cmd file, and have only succeeded in causing one of the test machines that previously worked to now fail. The machines I'm testing against all have Domain Admins in the local administrators group, and are pretty normal configuration. I'm at a loss.

Any ideas?
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RE: Trying to push .reg to SCCM clinets - mixed results - 9/4/2008 11:24:10 AM   
rtruss


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Status: offline 		I know this may seem far out there but is it possible that the path on the systems in question is bad (Older oracle installs could cause this.)? Try changing the %windir%\regedit.exe to c:\windows\regedit.exe.

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RE: Trying to push .reg to SCCM clinets - mixed results - 9/4/2008 11:26:43 AM   
Winston Smith

 

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Status: offline 		I actually changed "c:\windows\" to "%windir%" to troubleshoot, and at least one machine may have stopped working as a result of that change. I'll change it back, but the issue existed with "c:\windows" as well.

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RE: Trying to push .reg to SCCM clinets - mixed results - 9/4/2008 12:13:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		Is it possible they've got so many mapped drives that they don't have a Z: drive available?  Or possible they're already using a Z: drive?  If either of those are correct, the mapping will fail and it won't get done.    In my estimation, if you're using a .BAT file, you don't need to do that drive mapping stuff, just reference the source files using %~dp0 like this
http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jnelson/archive/2008/08/15/121348.aspx

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RE: Trying to push .reg to SCCM clinets - mixed results - 9/4/2008 1:18:43 PM   
Winston Smith

 

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Status: offline 		I dispensed with the .cmd file entirely and created a new package/Program with the following characteristics: in 'Command Line:' I entered

c:\windows\regedit.exe /s "SplashScreen.reg"

This works a treat!

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RE: Trying to push .reg to SCCM clinets - mixed results - 9/4/2008 1:47:23 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: Winston Smith

I dispensed with the .cmd file entirely and created a new package/Program with the following characteristics: in 'Command Line:' I entered

c:\windows\regedit.exe /s "SplashScreen.reg"

This works a treat!

FYI only.

Regedit should be within the path and therefore you don't need to provide the full path the exe.

So you might want to change it to just regedit.exe /s "splashScreen.reg", as this will allow for it to be successful on PC that don’t use C:\Windows.



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RE: Trying to push .reg to SCCM clinets - mixed results - 9/4/2008 2:21:01 PM   
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Status: offline 		Even better.  I use a CMD file only if I must.  If you can do it in the commandline, then more the better.

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