Help with remote calls to windows servers

[devostash]

I'm pretty new to this and have no idea where to start with this issue.

I am putting together a php page to get details of an automated job it overruns sometimes and inputs the wrong last run date into a db.
I hav ethe checking of this all under control in php and sql.
The trouble is if the process is running when the page is called it will give incorrect info for the running job.

Do any of you know if it's possible to remotely connect to a windows server to execute some vb to check for a running process using php to call the vb.
I have the VB script to run just not sure how to exec it to bring the info back to php.

Thanks

Devo

[autocolismo]

this helps?

system("your code here");