Question

I have an MSI installer that fails if it is running over remote desktop. (Unless it is run with the /admin or /console option so that it gets session 0)

I want to use a VBScript custom action to determine if I am running as Session 0. I’ve learned that I can use two WMI calls to determine this:

• GetCurrentProcessID()
• ProcessIdToSessionId()

However, I have no clue how to call these things in VBScript. And ideas?

Answer 1

Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
connection = oShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%SESSIONNAME%")
WScript.Echo connection

“Console” = local machine

“RDP-Tcp#0” = Remote Desktop (0 can be any number)