Capture USMT Return Code

[Arv2816]

I have created a GUI interface for Microsoft's User State Migration Tool. Does anybody know of a way for AutoIT to capture the return that is produced by scanstate.exe and loadstate.exe?

[BrewManNH]

There is an example that uses USMT that might help.

[Arv2816]

Thanks for the response. I have seen that post before, however, it doesn't look like the script actually verifies scanstate.exe ran properly, it only waits for the process to close and then proceeds. The scanstate.exe and loadstate.exe command lines will return codes upon completion (see here). I looking for a way to have my AutoIT script read these codes and then display a message box based on their value. Any ideas?

[BrewManNH]

Use RunWait to run the programs, RunWait returns the programs exit code.

[Country73]

ShellExecuteWait should do the same thing.

Straight from the Helpfile.

Success: Returns the exit code of the program that was run

Failure: Returns 0 and sets @error to non-zero

$RetVal = ShellExecuteWait( 'Filename' [, 'parameters' [, 'workingdir' [, 'verb' [, showflag]]]])

MsgBox(0,'Return Value',$RetVal)

[Arv2816]

Thank you for the response. RunWait did the trick, I am now able to capture the return code from scanstate.exe. Unfortunatly the return code for a successful scanstate.exe is 0, which is the same as a failure return code from AutoIT. Is there any way to change the value returned by AutoIT for a failure?

[BrewManNH]

No you can't change that value, but if you get a zero back, just check the @error value, if it's also zero, then it completed ok.