Sunday, August 25, 2013

VBS - Access is Denied with .Size Option with Vista/2008 or later Operating Systems

I needed to write a VB Script to audit the maximum file size on a bunch of workstations.  To do this in VBS its very simple with only a few lines of code using the .Size option with the folder object you declare under the Scripting.FileSystemObject API.  I have demonstrated the code required to grab the file size below in blue.

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder("C:\Users\boessenc!\)
Wscript.Echo objFolder.Size


Running this code on ANY folder on a Vista/2008 or higher workstation will give you a Permission denied error:

Microsoft VBScript runtime error: Permission denied


Running this on any older version of Windows such as Windows XP or 2003 works without problems.  The test above I ran the script against my users profile - a folder which of course my account has access to demonstrating the issue.

I also tested running this script against the WMI database with the FileSize property of the Win32_Directory class.  That doesn't work either.

As a result need to utilise another method for grabbing the directory size.

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