Thanks Kedar,
A few things:
1.)
http://www.scriptinganswers.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=168 is a dead link.
2.) I'm running Windows 2003 Enterprise SP2 where its supposedly "fixed"
3.) when I call asadmin.bat from the cmd.exe directly, it reports out the correct returncode. It's only when I call asadmin.bat through the subprocess module in python that it doesn't work.
Also note that I can through any other batch file together and have it work correctly. It seems to be an issue only with asadmin.bat and its inner-workings as noted on my post and sample test in the python forum.
I'll try "exit /B %ERRORLEVEL%" in asadmin.bat even though Janey reported that its not a fix to the issue because at this point its the only thing I know of that I haven't tried.
I appreciate the response and hope I can find a solution. I've automated countless other tasks in windows with system calls with no such issue.
TIA :)
Andrew
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