Classic VB/WMI - How Do I Run a Process On a Remote System?

[RobDog888]

Using VB and WMI you can run a process on any remote system on your network. The only requirements are that you have WMI on your system and you have Administrative prividgles on the remote system too.

When you run this you will get a return value of 0 for success and a process id which you can verify by logging into the remote system and looking in the task manager process' list.

Option Explicit
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Private Sub Command1_Click()
 
    On Error Resume Next
    
    Dim oProcess As Object
    Dim lProcessID As Long
    Dim lRet As Long
    
    Set oProcess = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\MyServer\root\cimv2:Win32_Process")
    'Or
    'Set oProcess = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\MyServer.MyDomain.com\root\cimv2:Win32_Process")    
    lRet = oProcess.Create("Notepad", Null, Null, lProcessID)
    MsgBox "Method returned result: " & lRet & vbNewLine & "Id of new process: " & lProcessID, vbOKOnly + vbInformation
 
End Sub

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