Windows 10: After 1803, batch file no longer works

I'm having with the batch file below on computers that have Windows 10 1803. This script works fine on Windows 10 1709 and earlier as well as Windows 7. The only error I get when I run this on 1803 is Error 1603. I've tried the various fixes online with no success (sorry, don't remember the exact links to link to them all). Checking event viewer, I see error 1719 for each application ("The windows installer service could not be accessed"). Services shows the service running. I've restarted the service with same results.

%%a is the target computer and read from a txt file containing a list of computers. The user is also an administrator on both the source and target computers. This portion is not the problem.


Does anybody have any ideas as to what gives? Before anybody says anything, I know I can deploy software through Group Policy, but unfortunately that is not an option at my company (long story).


cd C:\PSTools\
psexec \\%%a -u user -p password cmd /c "msiexec.exe /i "\\computer\c$\temp\install_flash_player_30_active_x.msi" /quiet /norestart"
psexec \\%%a -u user -p password cmd /c "msiexec.exe /i "\\computer\c$\temp\install_flash_player_30_plugin.msi" /quiet /norestart"
psexec \\%%a -u user -p password cmd /c "msiexec.exe /i "\\computer\c$\temp\install_flash_player_30_ppapi.msi" /quiet /norestart"
psexec \\%%a -u user -p password cmd /c "msiexec.exe /i "\\computer\c$\temp\jre1.8.0_171.msi" /quiet /norestart"
psexec \\%%a -u user -p password cmd /c "msiexec.exe /i "\\computer\c$\temp\jre1.8.0_171_64.msi" /quiet /norestart"
psexec \\%%a -u user -p password cmd /c "msiexec.exe /i "\\computer\c$\temp\AcroRdrDC1500720033_en_US.msi" /quiet /norestart"
psexec \\%%a -u user -p password cmd /c "msiexec.exe /p "\\computer\c$\temp\AcroRdrDCUpd1801120055.msp" /quiet /norestart"
psexec \\%%a -u user -p password cmd /c "msiexec.exe /i "\\computer\c$\temp\googlechromestandaloneenterprise64.msi" /quiet /norestart"

md "\\%%a\c$\temp"
copy "\\computer\c$\temp\Firefox Setup 61.0.1_64.exe" "\\%%a\c$\temp\Firefox Setup 61.0.1_64.exe"
psexec \\%%a -u user -p password "\\%%a\c$\temp\Firefox Setup 61.0.1_64.exe" -ms

copy "\\computer\c$\temp\TeamViewer_.exe" "\\%%a\c$\temp\TeamViewer_.exe"
psexec \\%%a -u user -p password "\\%%a\c$\temp\TeamViewer_.exe" /S

:)

 

Batch Files Knowledge Base

Don't use batch files very much but one I find useful is for creating a list of files in a directory.
Just copy the text below into Notepad and save as Filelist.bat

dir /a /-p /o:gen >filelist.txt

When you run it from a folder it will create a Filelist.txt file,in the same folder, that lists all the files in that folder.Useful when you are too lazy to type all the files out yourself.

 

Batch Files Knowledge Base

Very nice and usefull thanks for contributing.

 

Batch file to ping network

No, batch files are extremely easy.

A "If" requires three extra steps.

Code is not how much you can put in, but how lite can you make it and still perform the functions.

So

@ echo off


ping 1.4.1.4 >a.txt

findstr /m "Request timed out" a.txt
if %errorlevel%%==0 (
echo Save our nets!!!
)

pause