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Try the below code.<br />
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You usually have to put in a loop to wait until the Exec has finished (Status = True), then read StdOut.<br />

<pre><code id="code-323251">strCommand = &quot;shutdown -s -m \\&quot; &amp; strcomputername &amp; &quot; -t 00 -f&quot;
Set objScriptExec = objShell.Exec(strCommand)
Do Until objScriptExec.Status
   Wscript.Sleep 250
Loop
strCapture = objScriptExec.StdOut.ReadAll
LogFile.WriteLine(strCapture)
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Try the below code.

You usually have to put in a loop to wait until the Exec has finished (Status = True), then read StdOut.


strCommand = "shutdown -s -m \\" & strcomputername & " -t 00 -f"
Set objScriptExec = objShell.Exec(strCommand)
Do Until objScriptExec.Status
   Wscript.Sleep 250
Loop
strCapture = objScriptExec.StdOut.ReadAll
LogFile.WriteLine(strCapture)


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Hi Folks,<br />
<br />
The attached code is in a loop where everytime it runs, strcomputername is changed - thus shutting down multiple machines in a target list.<br />
<br />
The problem I am having is that strcapture is always an empty carriage return when written out to the logfile. &nbsp;I know that if the machine shutdown is successful then the empty blank line returned is expected, but when i run the command against a machine name that doesn't exist, it should come back with an error like &quot;The Network Path Was Not Found&quot; or similar.<br />
<br />
How can i get strCapture to capture the output correctly?<br />

<pre><code id="code-323005">strCommand = &quot;shutdown -s -m \\&quot; &amp; strcomputername &amp; &quot; -t 00 -f&quot;
Set objScriptExec = objShell.Exec(strCommand)
strCapture = objScriptExec.StdOut.ReadAll
LogFile.WriteLine(strCapture)
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Hi Folks,

The attached code is in a loop where everytime it runs, strcomputername is changed - thus shutting down multiple machines in a target list.

The problem I am having is that strcapture is always an empty carriage return when written out to the logfile.  I know that if the machine shutdown is successful then the empty blank line returned is expected, but when i run the command against a machine name that doesn't exist, it should come back with an error like "The Network Path Was Not Found" or similar.

How can i get strCapture to capture the output correctly?

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