bennebiest

We did a Novell migration for a customer last year. And we had the same need of new NAL as you're having right now. Microsoft doesn't offer a sort of Application Launcher as Novell does. Only the shortcut way. Either in start menu or explorer view. (Explorer view can be closed by the end user, the NAL couldn't be closed) So a colleague did some vb.net programming and created a simple GUI. To launch applications. We migrated to Softgrid (called App-V now). Our application launcher just executes the sfttray.exe with "application name" as parameter, to start an application.

Try this one: strComputer = "." Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _ & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") Set colSettings = objWMIService.ExecQuery _ ("Select * from Win32_OperatingSystem") For Each OS In colSettings 'Wscript.Echo OS.Caption 'WScript.Echo OS.Version strOS = OS.Caption WScript.Echo strOS Select Case strOS Case "Microsoft Windows XP Professional" WScript.Echo "XP" 'paste your gpupdate code Case "Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" WScript.Echo "2000" 'paste your secedit code End Select Next

To determine the Windows version: strComputer = "." Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _ & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") Set colSettings = objWMIService.ExecQuery _ ("Select * from Win32_OperatingSystem") For Each OS In colSettings Wscript.Echo OS.Caption WScript.Echo OS.Version Next For XP for example, it will give this output: Microsoft Windows XP Professional 5.1.2600 You can put the output in a variable and make a Select Case to execute te gpupdate or secedit, dependig on the Windows version. Happy coding.

To have auto backups of your redirected folders, I should use DFS (Server 2003 R2). Configure folder redirection to a DFS path, which is configured with redundant shares.

If you configure a loginscript via group policy. This script will be executed if the user is a member of the OU where the GPO w/ the loginscript is linked. So if the user is just in the local users group (client XP machine), the loginscript will not be executed. edit: I didn't get your question right :-)