Software Deployment

I'm pretty sure there are vbscripts already that do this, use the search.

i don't wish to use cacls.exe, only vbs.Well, that would be a neat trick, since VBScript has zero support for setting permissions.

At some point, you will need to call either a command line tool (like CACLS [XCACLS is light years easier to use, BTW, and it does registry permissions which CACLS doesn't], SetACL, etc) or you'll need to to use the ADsSecurity objects. This http://cwashington.netreach.net/depo/view.asp?Index=360&ScriptType=vb is a nice VBS file which uses those. If you wanted to go that route, your package will need to install and register ADsSecurity.DLL (and probably its companions ADsError.DLL and...I've forgotten, but they're in the ADSI SDK, too).

I converted the script to a class file ages ago so that I could re-use it for other projects. And no, I won't post copies to anyone.

Hi,

You can set permission using Setacl through Vb script.
http://setacl.sourceforge.net/html/examples.html.