Does you VPN show up in your Control Panel->Network connection? If it does, you will notice that when it is up, when you right mouse on it the world "disable" is there, but when it is down the word "enable" is there (but not disable), so with shell.application loop through your network connections until you find your VPN and check what "verb" is there, if it is "disable" then your up and running, if not, you aredown.


>Hey everyone
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>I'm automating the download of production data (from backups) to our test environment. Simple, right?
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>Except when the VPN connection goes down. I've got the commands to check VPN status from the command window, and that works just fine. When I try to automate checking the status, it vexes me.
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>Does anyone out there do something like this? If so, how?