Verify if package is run from task sequence

[SiegmundB]

one of our customers has the following question:

How can I have my software program (command line is a vbscript) check whether it is running from a task sequence or not?

 

They have these vbscripts as package installation framework. Programs are all optional and send a pop-up when starting and when finished to the interactive user.

 

now, since the Task sequence is run with the system account, those popups will not work do they?

 

any ideas?

[Peter van der Woude]

Programs that need user interaction, will not work during a Task Sequence. See also: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb680842.aspx

[Trevor Sullivan]

It's a little complicated, but you can make programs interactive when they're running -- there are numerous articles out there on how to do this:

 

http://www.codeproje...veOSDTasks.aspx

 

http://blogs.technet...tup-wizard.aspx

 

To answer the other part of your question, you can have an application detect if is part of a task sequence or not by detecting the existence of tsmanager.exe perhaps? Yeah, I know that's not exactly reliable, but it might work for the time being.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Cheers,

Trevor Sullivan

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