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[rgblair11]

Hi, very new to this but I did manage to accomplish writing a very simple script to do the following (code is at the end of this message for all who are interested:

Start a VPN connection
Wait until connected
Open Oulook
Select the correct profile

Ok, now I need to tackle how to handle different scenerios. If the VPN connection is already started, for example, how can I skip the "start VPN portion" and just open outlook? I can't figure a way to detect the VPN session.

A quick tutorial to the syntax of the following would be helpful:

Start VPN piece
if VPN piece is started, goto Start Outlook

Start Outlook

Thank you so much. I'm looking forward to enhancing my scripting skills.

CODE

;START VPN CONNECTION
Send, {LWINDOWN}r{LWINUP}
WinWait, Run,
IfWinNotActive, Run, , WinActivate, Run,
WinWaitActive, Run,
Send, rasphone{ENTER}
WinWait, Network Connections,
IfWinNotActive, Network Connections, , WinActivate, Network Connections,
WinWaitActive, Network Connections,
send, {ENTER}
WinWait, Connect Barton Malow,
IfWinNotActive, Connect Barton Malow, , WinActivate, Connect Barton Malow,
WinWaitActive, Connect Barton Malow,
send, {ENTER}
WinWait, Connecting Barton Malow...,
WinWaitClose, Connecting Barton Malow...,
;
;START OUTLOOK AND SELECT PROFILE
Send, {LWINDOWN}r{LWINUP}
WinWait, Run,
IfWinNotActive, Run, , WinActivate, Run,
WinWaitActive, Run,
Send, outlook{ENTER}
WinWait, Choose Profile,
IfWinNotActive, Choose Profile, , WinActivate, Choose Profile,
WinWaitActive, Choose Profile,
Send, {UP}{ENTER}
WinWait, Enter Password,
IfWinNotActive, Enter Password, , WinActivate, Enter Password,
WinWaitActive, Enter Password,
Send, sarael{ENTER}

[Beastmaster]

/profile profilename

Loads the specified profile. If your profile name contains a space, enclose the profile name in quotation marks.

/c ipm.note

Creates an e-mail message

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It looks that there's a chance to have a slight improvement in the Outlook section, based on the above syntax

[Beastmaster]

What about to run a VPN shutdown and check for a confirmation message/popup ?

[Beastmaster]

Check if the running VPN (Client) process is listed (in the TaskManager) using PSList [more...]

[Guest]

[Beastmaster]

Get all currently running processes and pipe them to a file e.g.
Run, %COMSPEC% /C pslist > C:\MyRunningProcesses.txt

Try to identify which is the name of your active! VPN Client process.
Based on that you can check specifically for that task/process the next time.

Run, %COMSPEC% /C pslist VPNProcessName > C:\MyRunningProcesses.txt

Then parse/read the outputfile to get the status of that process.
FileReadLine, Line, C:\MyRunningProcesses.txt, 1
MsgBox, %Line%

If the VPN process is active do wathever you want, e.g. send a file
If the process isn't active run the VPN process to get connected