3RD ATTEMPT: REGISTER DLL ON REMOTE PC

[Terry Holland]

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I have an application (vb6) that has been installed onto 50 machines across
the country (all part of same domain).
I have set up a system to copy updates ocross to all machines overnight.
This has been working great until the latest update. Unfortunately, the
update sends a dll that needs registering on all 50 pc's. I would like to
know if there is a way that I could get around having to log on to all 50
machines using Remote Desktop and manuall registering the dll using
regsvr32.dll

Points to note
Users will not have permissions to register the dll themselves
All machines are running win xp pro sp1
We have not fully implemented Active Directory
We do not have SMS

I would appreciate any help on this matter

tia

Regards

Terry Holland

 

[Tom Porterfield]

I have an application (vb6) that has been installed onto 50 machines across
the country (all part of same domain).
I have set up a system to copy updates ocross to all machines overnight.
This has been working great until the latest update. Unfortunately, the
update sends a dll that needs registering on all 50 pc's. I would like to
know if there is a way that I could get around having to log on to all 50
machines using Remote Desktop and manuall registering the dll using
regsvr32.dll

Points to note
Users will not have permissions to register the dll themselves
All machines are running win xp pro sp1
We have not fully implemented Active Directory
We do not have SMS

I would appreciate any help on this matter

You've pretty much boxed yourself on this one. Something must run on the
client machines with enough privileges to register the dll.

I haven't tried it, but instead of doing a full remote logon, you might try
something like PsExec.exe, part of the PsTools available at
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pstools.shtml. This allows you
to execute a process remotely. You could see if that can be scripted so as
to allow you to create a batch file that invokes this on your remote
machines from your desktop.
--
Tom Porterfield
MS-MVP Windows
http://support.telop.org

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[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

I have an application (vb6) that has been installed onto 50 machines across
the country (all part of same domain).
I have set up a system to copy updates ocross to all machines overnight.
This has been working great until the latest update. Unfortunately, the
update sends a dll that needs registering on all 50 pc's. I would like to
know if there is a way that I could get around having to log on to all 50
machines using Remote Desktop and manuall registering the dll using
regsvr32.dll

Points to note
Users will not have permissions to register the dll themselves
All machines are running win xp pro sp1
We have not fully implemented Active Directory
We do not have SMS

Hi

Two tools listed below that can run regsvr32.exe on the remote
computers.

Take a look at PsExec.exe in the free PsTools suite, found at
http://www.sysinternals.com

Another freeware program with similar merits to PsExec is Beyondexec.
http://www.beyondlogic.org/consulting/remoteprocess/BeyondExec.htm