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[vinva]

We're running Automize on Windows server 2008R2, and i am having problems running a VBScript (via Automize) which instantiates a 64-Bit COM object. It is failing on the line of code which instantiates the ActiveX control.

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This is what i did to test my approach, in an effort to emulate what AUTOMIZE would do..

I ran this from the console on the 2008 R2 machine:

START->RUN->%WINDIR%\SysWOW64\Cmd.exe

This gives me the 32-Bit command prompt (on a 64-Bit machine), if i then run the following command in the same command window:

cscript.exe SCRIPT_A.vbs

- assume SCRIPT_A.vbs contains code something like this:

oShell.Run("%WINDIR%\sysnative\cscript.exe SCRIPT_B.vbs", 1, true)

This then runs 64-Bit cscript.exe ("sysnative" is a virtual directory to get around windows 32/64-bit file redirection). So it should then run SCRIPT_B.vbs under a 64-bit context, right?, even though it was initiated originally from a 32-bit cmd.exe as explained above.

Anyway it all works fine when run this way, perfectly... SCRIPT_B.vbs instantiates the 64-Bit COM object fine. I ran this test in order to emulate what AUTOMIZE would do, given it is a 32-Bit application...

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HOWEVER

Running "cscript.exe SCRIPT_A.vbs" as a task in AUTOMIZE results in SCRIPT_B.vbs failing (it fails at the code which instantiates the 64-Bit COM object). I assume running cscript.exe under AUTOMIZE means it will run as a 32-Bit app (from SysWOW64).. so then running the subsequent SCRIPT_B.vbs script (as above) should then run SYSTEM32\cscript.exe, and it should all work fine. But it doesnt work.

Any idea what's going on?

Has anyone had experience launching 64-bit apps from AUTOMIZE?

Any tips/tricks?

[vinva]

I think i have the solution,

if i just set up a task in AUTOMIZE which runs something like thi

c:\windows\sysnative\cscript.exe <somescript.vbs>

It runs it under 64-Bit context, and it all works.

In all my frantic testing i missed this test, duh.

Anyway this may help someone run the 64-Bit versions of cscript or cmd.exe in future.

[melvin]

thanks for the feedback. I would have had no clue, but this will definitely help other users with similar issues.