[gptalk] Re: Vista in Win2k3 domain - VBS Logon scripts?
- From: "Darren Mar-Elia" <darren@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:01:28 -0800
Michael-
I finally got around to testing this on Vista RTM and had no problem running
a vbs drive mapping logon script for a normal user. I'm not sure what the
stuff below is all about. My script simply mapped a drive to a share.
Darren
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From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Michael Pietrzak
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 9:06 PM
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Subject: [gptalk] Re: Vista in Win2k3 domain - VBS Logon scripts?
Hi Darren,
I checked the post again and there was no file or attachment of any kind. As
a matter of fact, I went to make a reply and there wasn't even a function to
add and attachment. <scratching head>
I hope you can get use your connections to get the facts straight on this.
Just a quick search for "login scripts" and "map drive scripts" shows a
great number of people having this problem. All the answers from Mr.
Prashanth simply state that it's a LUA\UAC problem. No solution is ever
given and the text I sent you seems to be his most complete work to date.
Have you given a shot at replicating this with a simple VBS script? I will
disable UAC tomorrow and see what happens then.
Thanks again and I'll be crossing my fingers.
Michael
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From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Darren Mar-Elia
Sent: Mon 11/27/2006 5:15 PM
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Subject: [gptalk] Re: Vista in Win2k3 domain - VBS Logon scripts?
This is hilarious. They can't possibly think the thousands of orgs that use
logon scripts are going to put up with this? I'm going to bring this up
during our monthly MVP call with the GP product team. There has to be
another way to do this (aside from disabling UAC, of course).
Thanks for tracking this down Michael. Just for curiosity sake, can you post
the scripts referenced below?
Darren
From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Michael Pietrzak
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 5:10 PM
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Re: Vista in Win2k3 domain - VBS Logon scripts?
Darren-
I just came across this little tidbit in the technet Vista forums. People
seem pretty p.o'd regarding this answer to login scripts in vista. People
seem to be thinking that you now need two scripts to just run one. Any
thoughts on this?
Michael
Sorry about the delay. Here's an explanation of what you are seeing and the
official recomendation.
Explanation for what you are seeing and workaround :
By default Group policy service executes scripts in an elevated mode. There
are some scripts like 'Map network drives' that would need to be run in UAP
mode. In order to launch such scripts in a UAP context from an elevated
process, you can leverage the Task scheduler API. Here is a sample script:
Launchapp.wsf
Usage: cscript launchapp.wsf <AppPath>
If the user wants to run a GP logon script Script-UAP.wsf and requires it
to run in UAP context because it is mapping drives for the user then, create
another script Launch-Script-UAP.wsf which will just use the sample script
above to launch Script-UAP.wsf in UAP mode. Deploy this script as GP logon
script.
I'm attaching the LaunchApp sample script too.
This change will also be communicated via KB, Vista GP document or
otherwise.
Let me know if you still have issues.
Thanks,
Prashanth
Vista Remote File Systems.
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From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 1:06 PM
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Re: Vista in Win2k3 domain - VBS Logon scripts?
Michael-
What happens if you set the logon scripts to run hidden (using policy)?
Darren
From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Michael Pietrzak
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 1:02 PM
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Re: Vista in Win2k3 domain - VBS Logon scripts?
Thanks Darren,
I just checked the Minasi boards and couldn't find anything there. I'll keep
googling and trying to see what's going on. I had not yet checked the event
log so perhaps something is in there as well.
I should have made my problem more clear. The VBS scripts are logon scripts
that basically map drives. Nothing too fancy.
Thanks again! Let's hope there is a solution besides the "will be supported
on Longhorn server group policies".
Michael
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From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 12:59 PM
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Re: Vista in Win2k3 domain - VBS Logon scripts?
Michael-
My guess is that this is a UAC issue. I have heard it come up once before
with Vista. Not sure though-I will try to dig some more.
From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Michael Pietrzak
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 12:53 PM
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Vista in Win2k3 domain - VBS Logon scripts?
Hello all-
I am now running Vista in my windows 2003 domain and one of the first things
I noticed was that my VBS scripts that normally run on XP are no longer
being processed.
Now is the problem stemming from the fact that the script is set in a GPO
and the Vista box can't interpret it or is it a security issue in Vista that
I have to dig through to allow it to run.
Thanks guys in advanced for any thoughts.
Michael
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