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Asked: 2026-05-10T21:14:05+00:00

I’d like to call caspol from within a script inside a custom action in

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I’d like to call caspol from within a script inside a custom action in an msi (setup project). I’d prefer a standard msi to ClickOnce, because with a standard msi I can install drivers & associate filetypes with our application whereas with ClickOnce I can’t.

When I execute the caspol command from the command line it succeeds, but from within vbscript it always fails with the error ‘Fehler: Unbekannte Mitgliedschaftsbedingung – -url..’ – which translates as ‘Error: Unknown membership condition: -url’. To further clarify: A copy & paste of the generated command works fine on the command line directly on the local drive of a virgin virtual machine, as local administrator, as part of a workgroup.

I have two ideas: 1. I’m no vbscript king, so maybe I’ve missed quotes or made some other sort of syntax error. 2. Caspol recognises that I’m running it from within a script and halts with an intentionally nonsensical error.

Personally, I believe it’s just a dumb syntax error.

Here’s my script:

set sh = CreateObject('Wscript.Shell') Set fso = CreateObject('Scripting.FileSystemObject')  dim command dim location dim retVal  location = fso.GetFile(Wscript.ScriptFullName).ParentFolder  '%windir%\microsoft.net\framework\v2.0.50727\caspol.exe -pp off -m -addgroup 1 –url file://COMPUTER/SHARE/* FullTrust -name sbw2 command = fso.GetSpecialFolder(0) & '\microsoft.net\framework\v2.0.50727\caspol.exe -pp off -m -ag 1 –url file://' for each s in Split(location, '\')         if Len(s) > 0 then                 command = command & s & '/'         end if next command = command & '* FullTrust -name sbw2'  'DEBUG 'command = fso.GetSpecialFolder(0) & '\microsoft.net\framework\v2.0.50727\caspol.exe -m -ag 1 –url file://mjlaptop/sbw2/* FullTrust' Wscript.StdOut.WriteLine VbClrf Wscript.StdOut.WriteLine command Wscript.StdOut.WriteLine VbClrf  Set output = sh.Exec(command)  dim text while Not output.StdOut.AtEndOfStream         text = text & output.StdOut.Read(1) Wend Wscript.StdOut.WriteLine text

Thanks in advance,

Matt

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  1. Change url formatting of url in command to \\mjlaptop\sbw2* for some reason, formatted as ‘file://…’ won’t work. With or without quotes.

    This uid (yossarian) belongs to me (Matt Jacobsen) too. I’d had to use the above as claimid was down for maintennance.

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