Delete Registry Key.

[mikehday]

I'm trying to delete a registry key on all advanced SMS clients. Half fail ... the others succed. Its a simple script ... and when I run it manually on the clients the script runs succesfully. The error that is returned from SMS is vauge of coure (exit code 1).

Does anyone have a clue why it doesn't run on some clients but does on others?

Here's the little script: "\\sms-server\E$\packages\scripts\Reg delete "hklm\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SMS\Mobile Client\Software Distribution\Execution History\System\CA100051" /force

 

[tbrennans]

A couple guesses..Are you running it with user rights? If so, do all the users have admin rights?

 

[mikehday]

no ... the program is setup to "Run with Administrative rights".

 

[tbrennans]

have you had a chance to see if perhaps the key on any of the machines is corrupt?

And I guess the other thing I've had with scripts is, are you copying it to the local machine or running it from the server, at times, when I try to run a boatload of machines all at once with one script and all off a server share, it seems like it gets to busy to run to many at once, when I copy the script to the local machine it seems to fix the problem.

 

[mikehday]

I'll setup my next test to copy the script to the client.

For the 14 out of 28 that did failed with SMS i ran manually on each box and only one did not run locally because the registry key did not exist.

 

[johnnyb99]

Rather than using a script, export the key using regedit, modify the export file to delete the key ("-" in front of key name ...

http://www.robvanderwoude.com/index.html),

then use the command line "regedit.exe /s <name of export file>"

I like using regedit because its made for manipulating the registry more so than, say, vbscript ... plus it's easier.