In some cases devices are installed on some units and not others even within model groupings.\u00a0 In my experience, I was looking to target certain Panasonic Toughbook laptops with Embedded Wireless cards installed to install the required software resources to address those needs.\u00a0 Needless to say, the Wireless switches needed to switched to the \u201con\u201d position for the OS to see the devices when the script was run.<\/p>\n

See example script below to check for the presence of an AT&T Novatel EU860 module:<\/p>\n

‘===================
\n‘
\n‘ NAME:\u00a0 PNPCheck.vbs
\n‘
\n‘ AUTHOR: Brian Gonzalez
\n‘ DATE\u00a0 : 4\/5\/2010
\n‘
\n‘===================<\/p>\n

If PNPCheck(“VID_1410&PID_2420”) Then ‘Novatel EU860 modem check
\nMsgBox(“ATT EU860 modem is present”)
\nEnd If<\/p>\n

Function PNPCheck(DeviceName)
\n‘PNPID = “%VID_04DA&PID_250C%” ‘GOBI PNP ID
\n‘PNPID = “%VEN_1022&DEV_2000%” ‘VMWare NIC
\nSet objWMIService1 = GetObject(“winmgmts:\\\\.\\root\\CIMV2”)
\nSet colItems = objWMIService1.ExecQuery(“Select DeviceID FROM Win32_PnPEntity Where DeviceID LIKE “”%” & PnpID & “%”””)
\nIf colItems.Count > 0 Then
\nPNPCheck = True
\nElse
\nPNPCheck = False
\nEnd If
\nEnd Function<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In some cases devices are installed on some units and not others even within model groupings.\u00a0 In my experience, I was looking to target certain Panasonic Toughbook laptops with Embedded Wireless cards installed to install the required software resources to address those needs.\u00a0 Needless to say, the Wireless switches needed to switched to the \u201con\u201d\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,12,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scripting","category-win7","category-winpe","category-winxp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3WXID-8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/supportishere.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/supportishere.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/supportishere.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supportishere.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supportishere.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/supportishere.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/supportishere.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/supportishere.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supportishere.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supportishere.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}