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Windows Forum / Windows Vista / Administration / May 2008Detect Vista in Logon Script
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 Just like before, Control panel -System > How can we detect for Windows Vista in our Logon Script? Previously we > could [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > running Vista or not? Maybe a newer version of OSVER, or another command > that we can run in a batch file? TIA > How can we detect for Windows Vista in our Logon Script? Previously we > could [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > running Vista or not? Maybe a newer version of OSVER, or another command > that we can run in a batch file? TIA 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 D, Thank you, that's EXACTLY what I was looking for. -Dave > > How can we detect for Windows Vista in our Logon Script? Previously we > > could [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > > D 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 > 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 [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > D 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 > D > One minor suggestion. Rather than hard coding the drive letter (which [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] >> >> D 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 [quoted text clipped - 42 lines] >>> >>> 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  SignatureThanks 树 大家有时间听一下《雪花》 > How can we detect for Windows Vista in our Logon Script? Previously we > could [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > running Vista or not? Maybe a newer version of OSVER, or another command > that we can run in a batch file? TIA 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 > Hi, here is the code I used in my batch File: > [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > > running Vista or not? Maybe a newer version of OSVER, or another command > > that we can run in a batch file? TIA 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 > Thanks Youyang, I'll keep this one in mind also. > [quoted text clipped - 42 lines] >> > command >> > that we can run in a batch file? TIA just do a query for the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProductName it should return Windows Vista or XP Signatureshmoib |
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