As I mentioned earlier, I love FinalBuilder. I am always looking for ways to put more into FinalBuilder. One thing that I noticed during deployment of builds to target server machines is that I am still doing some manual steps to unregister the COM servers before copying via FinalBuilder, and then registering the COM servers after the copy is complete. I do this to make sure that if a user decides to try and connect to the app server during the time that I am copying the build up, they don't get through.

I have a BAT file that unregisters and uninstalls services that I use to do this. But this means that I need to do this on the target machine. I did some digging and came across PSExec from SysInternals. This file will let you execute commands on a remote machine. After some tweaking, I came up with the following command that I am now using in FB to take care of remote COM registration tasks.

psexec \\%TARGET_SERVER% -u Administrator -p MyAdminPassword -w c:\Servers cmd /c unreg_servers.bat

This works very well, and it's one more thing that I now have under the control of FinalBuilder. I also use SysInternal's PSService utility to remotely control the services.