Detect Vista in Logon Script

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How can we detect for Windows Vista in our Logon Script? Previously we could
use OSVER.exe or even a 3rd party app OSVER61.exe to detect all versions of
windows through Server 2003. When OSVER is run on Vista it returns nothing,
not even unknown, just nothing. Is there a way to detect if a user is
running Vista or not? Maybe a newer version of OSVER, or another command
that we can run in a batch file? TIA
 
Dave said:
How can we detect for Windows Vista in our Logon Script? Previously we
could
use OSVER.exe or even a 3rd party app OSVER61.exe to detect all versions
of
windows through Server 2003. When OSVER is run on Vista it returns
nothing,
not even unknown, just nothing. Is there a way to detect if a user is
running Vista or not? Maybe a newer version of OSVER, or another command
that we can run in a batch file? TIA
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When I was writing my logon scripts, I checked for environment variables.
Ex - if %os%==Windows_NT then do winxp stuff (as we have no nt4 or even 2k
pro machines on the network, this worked properly)

For Vista, I noticed that the %os% variable is the same, so I had to check
something else, but I needed to do this before my xp check, so now I do
something like this...

if "%allusersprofile%"=="C:\ProgramData" goto WinVista
if %os%==Windows_NT goto WinXP
::
::if it gets here, assume 9x base
::
exit
::
:Winvista
@Echo Windows Vista Operating System Detected
goto fin
::
:winxp
@Echo Windows XP Operating System Detected
::
:fin

This is an example of a script I use daily, and I've not yet had a problem
with it detecting the wrong OS.

Hope this helps.

D
 
Hi, here is the code I used in my batch File:

ECHO *Detecting Windows Version...

VER | findstr /i "5.1.2600" > nul
IF %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 0 GOTO XP


VER | findstr /i "5.2.3790" > nul
IF %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 0 GOTO 2003

VER | findstr /i "6.0.6000" > nul
IF %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 0 GOTO VISTARTM

:XP
ECHO *Windows XP
REM TODO
GOTO EOF

:2003
ECHO *Windows Server 2003
REM TODO
GOTO EOF

:VISTARTM
ECHO *Windows Vista RTM
 
Thanks Youyang, I'll keep this one in mind also.

We might be pushing our luck here, but does anyone have an idea on how to
determine the "flavor" of Windows Vista? We probably don't want to run the
same commands for our users who have Vista Home vs. Business/Ultimate.

-Dave
 
I don't have Vista home on a machine nearby, but on Vista Business (and
probably Ultimate and Enterprise), there are 2 variables - USERDOMAIN and
USERDNSDOMAIN. So, using the info I orginally posted, and assuming you were
on a domain, you could do something like...

if %userdomain%==mydomain goto vistabiz

or even...

if "%userdomain%"=="" goto nodomain
::do vista business stuff here...
::
goto fin
:nodomain
::system not on domain, so assume vista home
::
:fin

One thing you can do to see what environment variables to use would be to
open a command prompt and type in SET and hit enter. If you have a Vista
Home machine near you, compare the variables to see what is on the Vista
Home machine that might not be on the Business machine, or vice versa, and
then use that variable in your script.

Also, you could talk to whomever is resonsible for imaging and deploying
machines in your location and ask them to set the machines up with a global
environment variable via the default user registry, but I think you'd be
better off looking at the existing environment variables.

Again, hope this helps.

Doug
 
D
One minor suggestion. Rather than hard coding the drive letter (which
fails on my dual boot xp/vista machine with Vista on D:) I would do it this
way.

if "%allusersprofile%"=="%HOMEDRIVE%\ProgramData" goto WinVista
 
That's a good idea, but in an AD domain based environment, that might not
work as many admins populate the map home drive (letter) to (path) which
then sets the %homedrive% variable. But, like I said it's a good idea to
not code the drive letter. Instead, and I believe this is what you had
meant to say, was to use %systemdrive%

Thanks for the tip though

Doug
 
Good clarification. Thanks.

That's a good idea, but in an AD domain based environment, that might not
work as many admins populate the map home drive (letter) to (path) which
then sets the %homedrive% variable. But, like I said it's a good idea to
not code the drive letter. Instead, and I believe this is what you had
meant to say, was to use %systemdrive%

Thanks for the tip though

Doug
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