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How to place a message using inverted commas in VBS script using wshShell.Exec?

Asked by harnamsc in Web Development Software, .NET

Tags: VBS, Scripting, Windows Server 2003

Greetings to all,

I'm trying to create a few scripts to automate a Wake On LAN and automatic shutdown in my server farm using the freeware poweroff.exe utility. I have a txt file in my managment server D: which contains all the hostnames, IP's and MAC addresses necessary for the WOL and POL functions. My WOL script is working fine, but my POL script has an error. As you can see from the code attached, I've specified parameters with the poweroff.exe command to include a message in the poweroff.exe command so that any users logged in will be prompted to click the cancel button. However the message must be placed in inverted commas, and as a result is causing a syntax error with the WScript.Shell.Exec("") method.

Is there a way for me to include a message in inverted commas within the WScript.Shell.Exec("") method? I've been trying to find a solution for days but with no success. 
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Const ForReading = 1
 
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("D:\WOL\WorkstationIP.txt", ForReading)
Set wshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
 
 
Do Until objTextFile.AtEndOfStream
  arrAddress = Split(objTextFile.Readline, " ")
  wshShell.Exec("D:\WOL\poweroff.exe poweroff -remote " & arrAddress(0) & " -warn -warntime 30 -msg "Computer is shutting down. Click CANCEL to abort." -force -quiet")
Loop
 
 
objReadFile.Close
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