Delivering multiple scripts

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Hello,

I am attempting to deliver 2 scripts, one is to run as the logged in user and the other as the agent. I used the software deployment wizard and grabbed a folder but I cannot move the scripts. When the folder is extracted is it extracted to the _Download\FOLDERNAME\Scipt.ps1?

Completed extract c5fcddcc10f36d80828d4be85acf8c9cfac9f5e6
Failed wait move “__Download\ODM\GPOScript062222-1.ps1” “C:\TEMP\GPOScript062222-1.ps1”

I have tried both with and without the folder name

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Two things:
A copy will fail if the target file already exists, so you need to delete it first
and you only need ‘wait’ if you are invoking an external command - ‘move’ is actionscript, so doesn’t need the wait

extract c5fcddcc10f36d80828d4be85acf8c9cfac9f5e6
delete "C:\TEMP\GPOScript062222-1.ps1"
move "__Download\ODM\GPOScript062222-1.ps1" "C:\TEMP\GPOScript062222-1.ps1"

The delete command does not error if the target isn’t there, so you don’t need to test for presence beforehand

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TRN,

Thanks for the reply. The script is not in the TEMP directory at this time. I did have the delete in there for a few of the test but removed it to simplify the script.

4

OK - have you removed the ‘wait’ that precedes ‘move’?

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Completed extract c5fcddcc10f36d80828d4be85acf8c9cfac9f5e6
Completed delete “C:\TEMP\GPOScript062222-1.ps1”
Completed delete “C:\TEMP\GPOScript062222-2.ps1”
Failed move “__Download\ODM\GPOScript062222-1.ps1” “C:\TEMP\GPOScript062222-1.ps1”

I also do not see anything in the _Download folder

6

I had it working on the 17th, tried a larger group and it failed to actually run so we broke the script into 2 scripts, one to run as current user and 1 as the agent to change HKLM settings.

This was from the 17th
Completed extract a839f084d666b858455bb798c088c0bc5bc41170
Completed delete C:\TEMP\GPOScript061722.ps1
Completed move “__Download\GPOScript061722.ps1” "C:\TEMP\GPOScript061722.ps1"
Completed waithidden cmd.exe /C icacls.exe C:\temp /grant Everyone:W
Completed override wait
Completed hidden=true
Completed runas=currentuser
Completed wait “C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe” -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File C:\TEMP\GPOScript061722.ps1
Completed delete C:\TEMP\GPOScript061722.ps1

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You can extract directly to a named path though as @TRN points out, the files do need to be deleted first.

if {not exists folder "C:\TEMP"}
	folder create "C:\TEMP"
endif

delete "C:\TEMP\GPOScript062222-1.ps1"
delete "C:\TEMP\GPOScript062222-2.ps1"
extract c5fcddcc10f36d80828d4be85acf8c9cfac9f5e6 C:\TEMP

One other point is that using copy instead of move can sometimes avoid issues with permissions the extracted files may retain that are inherited from the downloads folder.

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Good point re: copy being better than move

If there is nothing in __Download then neither copy nor move will work, but this is harder to debug because Bigfix tidies up after itself. Extracting to another folder as suggested by @SLB is helpful in that case, because the alternative target is not within the remit of the housekeeping activity

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We got it! I can’t thank you all enough! The extract to the TEMP and adding the full path to powershell fixed it. I was able to run -1 script as the current user and the -2 as the agent to modify the HKLM keys.

Thanks again!

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