"Tony Logan" <TonyLo...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> My script sometimes quits on this line:
> Set objReg=GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" &
> strCompName & "\root\default:StdRegProv")

> The script is for installing the Microsoft SCCM client to a group of
> remote
> PCs. The script checks if the remote PC can be pinged, checks the local PC
> for the necessary installation files, and copies whichever files are
> needed
> to the remote PC. Remote PCs can either already have the SCCM client, the
> SMS
> client (the previous version of SCCM), or neither client. If either the
> 2nd
> or 3rd case are true, the SCCM client gets installed on the remote PC. The
> script reports the results to a log file and runs against multiple PCs by
> reading a txt file.

> It works fine most of the time, but every so often it bombs at the line I
> noted above. As an alternative I tried this:
> Set objReg = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strCompName &
> "\root\default:StdRegProv")

> But that produced the same result: the script gets to that line and quits
> running instead of continuing on to the rest of the script or going to the
> next PC.

> I added "On Error Resume Next" to the file to allow the script to continue
> if it finds a PC it can't ping. But even when I comment that out, the code
> errors on the lines above and then exits. The error message says
> "Permission
> denied: GetObject. The remote server has been paused or is in the process
> of
> being restarted."

> All the PCs are Windows XP, Service Pack 2, Office 2003.