One of the problems when using a script to perform multiple installation actions is getting success or failure statistics for all the actions. One of the big things to remember is quitting the script with the proper exit code. For example, here is a simple script I wrote to install Visio 2003, then apply the SP2 update, which was in a subfolder called “patch”. I didn’t really care if SP2 ran successfully or not, because the update is also in the software update cycle. But I did want to know if the installation failed.
On Error Resume Next Set sho = Wscript.CreateObject(“Wscript.Shell”)
strCommand = “msiexec.exe /i VISPRO.MSI /qn” intRet = sho.run(strCommand,0,True)
‘*** Set step into patch directory, run MSP file. currdir = sho.currentdirectory sho.CurrentDirectory = currdir & “\patch\” strCommand = “msiexec.exe /update Visio2003-KB840663-FullFile-ENU.MSP /qn” sho.CurrentDirectory = currdir ‘Set current directory back to root folder
‘*** Quit with exit code from MSI installation wscript.quit(intRet)
The bolded sections are the ones we want to focus on. Here we’re simply setting a variable with the installation command line to run, called strCommand. Then in the next step, we’re setting a variable intRet equal to the exit code of run command. Finally at the end, we’re quitting the script with the intRet variable as the exit code.
This way we can effectively take many actions in a script and still deliver an exit code to SCCM, so that failed installations will show up as failed in SCCM reporting. Obviously this is an extremely simple script, but you can modify it from here to enable exit code passing for multiple actions. But don’t take my word for it.
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