Group-Policy

Yes, I still use vbscript. Someday, I’ll get to work in an environment where everything is upgraded. Until then, I have to rely on the tried and true vbscript. One of the most common uses of a Group Policy startup script is for adding users to the local admin group. Just google it and you will find hundreds of scripts doing just that, batch files, posh, vbscript, perl, etc. I wrote the script below because I wanted the flexibility to reuse this script at any client and for any group (not just Administrators but Remote Desktop Users or Power Users).

Due to some software requirements, there was a need to get JRE 1.5.0_09 rolled out across our enterprise. The requirements were pretty straight forward: Only install on client operating systems (Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7) Detect the versions of Java installed. If 1.5.0_09 is installed, exit. If 1.5.0_08 or less was installed, install this version. If it has a newer version, do nothing. The best way of determining the Java versions is to look in %program files%. On 64-bit machines, this is “C:program files (x86)Java”. On 32-bit, this is “C:program filesJava”. The script accounts for this.