Logon Script - How to wait until one command has finished before continuing script.

We are currently rolling out a software patch that needs to be applied at logon.

It is a VBS file that calls several other applications and batch files to run.

Our login script by default will automatically open up Outlook, and 3 other programs at startup.

I have placed the below snippet at the very start of our logon script, and I have used the sleep program to make it sleep for 250 seconds.

The problem I have, is that when the login script loads, if the clientupgrade script doesn't run within the time frame, Outlook will continue to open and disrupt the install. The program we use is an add-on to Outlook, and if Outlook is open the files it needs to write over are in use and the whole install fails.

Is there any way to force a block of code to NOT continue, until it is 100% complete? Without using the sleep command, would there be another way to do this? The reason being is that the computers here (300+) all vary in speeds. Some PC's take 60 seconds, other computers 5 minutes. If we made the script wait (as it calls other msi and batch files) until it was completely done before it continued it would make me very happy!  Start Free Trial

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Rem GROUPNAMEGOESHERE
if exist "c:\upgrade.txt" Goto :NEXTSTEP
IfMember "GROUPNAMEGOESHERE"
If Not errorlevel 1 Goto :NEXTSTEP
Call \\servername\applicationfolder\clientupgrade.vbs
sleep 250
copy "\\servername\applicationfolder\custom.exe" "C:\Prorgram Files\Application Path" /y
call "\\servername\applicationfolder\ForceOutlookToolbar.bat"
call "\\servername\applicationfolder\extrasettings.bat"
net send %computername% Congratulations %user%, application has been upgraded to the latest version. Click OK to continue.
:NEXTSTEP