WMI Filter fails for Windows Vista

[PreviousPoster]

Hi!

I am trying to create a WMI Filter for a GPO so that it only will apply to Windows Vista Business. This GPO does only one thing and that is to run a login script. The script is very simple and is designed to change the power settings from Power Saver to High Performance.

Using Scriptomatic I came up with the following filter:

[code:1]SELECT * FROM Win32_OperatingSystem WHERE Caption = 'Microsoftr Windows VistaT Business' [/code]

I have tried with double quotes as well, but to no avail. I have also tried using BuildNumber = '6001' and that doesn't seem to work.

I have essentially the same setup for Windows XP and it is working fine. The script works as expected if I run it from the desktop, but not when I try from a login script. Here are the contents of the script:

[code:1]strComputer="."
shellCommand1="POWERCFG -SETACTIVE 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c"

Set oShell=CreateObject("Wscript.Shell"& #41;
oShell.run "%comspec% /c " & shellCommand1[/code]

As you can see it is a very simple script and works fine.

I ran the filter on the WMI Filter Validator from GPOGuy and got this error: “Call was canceled by the message filter. (Exception from HRESULT:0x80010002 (RPC_E_CALL_CANCELED))"

Can anyone see the reason this WMI filter is not working? Thanks!

[PreviousPoster]

One thing that comes to my mind immediately is the misspelling of "Microsoft" in your query. There is an "r" at the end which should not be there...

[PreviousPoster]

I used the following script to get the caption of the OS.

[code:1]On Error Resume Next

Const wbemFlagReturnImmediately = &h10
Const wbemFlagForwardOnly = &h20

strComputer = "."

Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\CIMV2")
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_OperatingSystem", "WQL", _
wbemFlagReturnImmediately + wbemFlagForwardOnly)

For Each objItem In colItems

WScript.Echo "Caption: " & objItem.Caption

Next[/code]

This is why there is also a T at the end of Vista. As far as I can tell the r is for Registered (R) and the T is for TradeMark (TM).

[PreviousPoster]

Mmh, when I execute your query, I do not see the "R" at the end of "Vista", but the "®".
I am not sure if this is the problem you are facing, but to overcome this possible issue I tried this query:
[code:1]Select * FROM Win32_OperatingSystem WHERE caption like '%Vista%Business%'[/code]
This query works fine for me in a simple vb script and with the validate tool you mentioned I do no get an error.

Does this work for you as well?

[PreviousPoster]

Interesting....
When I copy your filter, it still does not work. I get the same error :x