Not sure what I'm doing!

[Kevin Hyland]

Hi

I’m trying to re-organise the sequence of Adapters and Binding on multiple Window 7 computers on a domain. I’m using the following in a simple batch file

nvspbind /++ “Wireless Network Connection” ms_tcpip

nvspbind /++ “Local Area Connection 4” ms_tcpip

nvspbind /++ “Local Area Connection 3” ms_tcpip

nvspbind /++ “Local Area Connection 2” ms_tcpip

nvspbind /++ “Local Area Connection” ms_tcpip

Which basically puts the Wireless Connection bottom of the pecking order with the LAN connections at the top

So this works fine on my local PC. So I modified it for updating of Remote PCs

@echo off

set uber=%1

psexec -nobanner -accepteula \%uber% -c nvspbind /++ “Wireless Network Connection” ms_tcpip >nul

psexec -nobanner -accepteula \%uber% -c nvspbind /++ “Local Area Connection 4” ms_tcpip >nul

psexec -nobanner -accepteula \%uber% -c nvspbind /++ “Local Area Connection 3” ms_tcpip >nul

psexec -nobanner -accepteula \%uber% -c nvspbind /++ “Local Area Connection 2” ms_tcpip >nul

psexec -nobanner -accepteula \%uber% -c nvspbind /++ “Local Area Connection” ms_tcpip >nul

psexec -nobanner -accepteula \%uber% -c nvspbind /o ms_tcpip

Yep – I know it’s not tidy, but need to check this works first!

And if I ran the Batch file with the remote computer name (ie ReOrderBind <computername>) then the Adapters were re-ordered on the remote computer. It works fine but no matter how I try I cannot get the same principle to work in BatchPatch. It says Success or Exit Code 0, no errors but doesn’t do anything to change the order of the adapters. If I manually run the Batch from CMD it runs and updates the Binding

I’ve two scripts, one with PSEXEC in the batch and the other as if I was running it locally on the remote PC. Never gets any errors from BP, tells me Success but doesn’t do anything.

Any assistance appreciated

Thanks

Kevin

[doug]

I created a batch file ‘nvspbind.cmd’ with the exact contents that you posted, only modified for my target computer’s network connections, which does not include a wireless connection. On my target computer I used the GUI to set my the binding order out of sequence (1,3,2,4).

Contents of my ‘nvspbind.cmd’:

nvspbind /++ "Local Area Connection 4" ms_tcpip

nvspbind /++ "Local Area Connection 3" ms_tcpip

nvspbind /++ "Local Area Connection 2" ms_tcpip

nvspbind /++ "Local Area Connection" ms_tcpip

I then put a copy of nvspbind.exe in C:Windows on the target computer.

I then executed a BatchPatch deployment (using the same method as described here, but instead of deploying a .MSU I deployed the .cmd remotely-deploy-a-standalone-msu-update-to-multiple-computers ) to deploy nvspbind.cmd to the target computer. It ran successfully with Exit Code 0. I then verified in the GUI on the target computer that the bindings had been re-ordered successfully.

Another option that also works is if you don’t want to put a copy of nvspbind.exe on the target computers, instead you can put it in the same directory as your nvspbind.cmd file with just those two files (nvspbind.cmd and nvspbind.exe) in that directory. Then in your deployment settings you’ll still deploy the .cmd file, but then you’ll also tick the box that says ‘Copy entire directory…’ so that both the .cmd and the .exe get copied to the target. Then the batch file is executed, and the files are removed from the target after completion.

All that said, I don’t see any reason why you should not be able to do exactly what I just did.

-Doug

[Kevin Hyland]

Thanks Doug

I didn’t try running the script as a software deployment – I was trying to run it locally or remotely as it’s a script.

Silly me!

Thanks again for the great support Doug

Cheers

Kevin

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