Where I used to
work, we relied heavily on logon scripts. When we migrated to 2000, the
logon script could not run a lot of the things we wanted due to it running under
the user's privileges. In VB, we created an exe that we setup as a custom
service that would check every hour for an ini file that would point it to what
ever commands we wanted run. When we set the service up on the machine, we
gave it a domain account logon and that account has admin privileges on the
box. This allows us to get anything out within an hour no matter who is
logged on. The only possible gotcha, or in some cases a plus, is that the
command you run has to run completely silently. The installation will not
show any dialog boxes on the machine. This may be just the way the VB
programmer did it, but I remember working with them and it was an issue that we
could get by with.
Brian
