Re: [wpkg-users] Ugly perl script to check if packages are installed on a set of workstations.
Hello Chris, I was going to wait, and clean up this script, but I don't think I will ever come back to it. ... I use this program to send a list to our desktop techs about which computer are out of compliance. I would love any feedback or improvements from anyone, or if you have a better way to get this type of information. Thanx again for this nice script, it does it's work - and this is worth the effort. But I have one problem with the script, perhaps you can help me. If I have two hosts definitions in hosts.xml, one special for a certain host and one with regex for all common hosts, the report.pl prints out the special host missing the remaining packages from the common profile which shouldn't be installed on the special host. To be clearer - an example: profile1: packages common to all hosts profile2: packages for the special host without e.g. acrobat8 which is included in profile1 for the common hosts hosts definitions: host name=ws-0026 profile-id=profile2 / ... host name=ws-.+ profile-id=profile1 / report.pl gives: WS-0026: acrobat8 DBv: 5 PCv: Any hints? thanx in advance Falko -- Falko Trojahn fon +49-341-3581294 Dipl-Ingenieur Netzwerke/Support fax +49-341-3581295 SMI Softmark Informationstechnologien GmbH Sitz: D-04416 Markkleeberg, Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 51 Registergericht: Amtsgericht Leipzig HRB 164 Geschäftsführer: Andreas Griesmann - Reporting bugs, all WPKG mailing lists http://wpkg.org/Support ___ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users
Re: [wpkg-users] WPKG Client 1.3.2 released (testing release)
I think it should also upgrade if you have Windows Installer 3.1, but I didn't test it personally. Yes, seems to work. Forced an immediate reboot, tomorrow i will test with an REBOOT=ReallySuppress. Cool! ;) -- dott. Marco Gaiarin GNUPG Key ID: 240A3D66 Associazione ``La Nostra Famiglia''http://www.sv.lnf.it/ Polo FVG - Via della Bontà, 7 - 33078 - San Vito al Tagliamento (PN) marco.gaiarin(at)sv.lnf.it tel +39-0434-842711 fax +39-0434-842797 Dona il 5 PER MILLE a LA NOSTRA FAMIGLIA! http://www.lanostrafamiglia.it/chi_siamo/5xmille.php (cf 00307430132, categoria ONLUS oppure RICERCA SANITARIA) - Reporting bugs, all WPKG mailing lists http://wpkg.org/Support ___ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users
Re: [wpkg-users] Message box for notifying users
Tomasz Chmielewski schrieb: mscdex schrieb: (...) So a few days ago or so I set out to code something in jscript that would accomplish just this. My solution makes use of Internet Explorer automation and works for IE5.00 through IE7 (on both Win2k (no/any service packs) and WinXP (tested with SP2)). The code could use some more work and I may clean it up and continue work on it in the following days, but I was mainly concerned about it displaying the same for all mentioned browser versions. (...) You may check something similar - see http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/2008-February/thread.html#2628 (wpkg via Group Policies thread). Do you have any screenshots etc.? It could be also worth to make a separate page in wiki for such user-contributed stuff. I created a page in the wiki: http://wpkg.org/User_contributed_software It is available as a first link on http://wpkg.org/Related_projects So if you people have any scripts, programs etc. which are useful for you - give some info there (or just put some brief info with a link to a page with more details, where it is hosted etc.). -- Tomasz Chmielewski - Reporting bugs, all WPKG mailing lists http://wpkg.org/Support ___ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users
Re: [wpkg-users] Message box for notifying users
mscdex schrieb: Right now the messages would work when wpkg.js is executed, after the user logs in. This situation is fine by me because I have certain domain groups assigned to at least a certain wpkg base profile (e.g. students, teachers, office staff) and so wpkg would need to be executed after logon. I have the client machine(s) set to not display the desktop shell until the logon scripts have completed and because of that all they see is a wallpaper background while wpkg is running (no sense in giving the user the idea wpkg is finished when it isn't, especially if an auto-reboot is required). I thought during this time if wpkg was performing any tasks, a useful message(s) could be shown so that the they do not assume the system has hung or has crashed. Also, I thought it would be especially nice to have a message displayed if an automatic reboot was needed after installing a new application/upgrade/removal, something like rebooting in 5 seconds... Wouldn't WPKG Client with logon delay enabled solve your problems, including rebooting in 5 seconds? Note that displaying custom messages is available in testing versions of wpkg.js and WPKG Client. -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org - Reporting bugs, all WPKG mailing lists http://wpkg.org/Support ___ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users
Re: [wpkg-users] Message box for notifying users
I agree using the wpkg client service would do this, but I am looking to have the smallest footprint possible by having everything executed from a script on the server. From what I've seen in the wpkg client, I've already been able to implement its features that I'd be using for my situation, using WSH (things like before and after wpkg processing, running as an account with higher privileges to allow software installations/upgrades/removals, etc) or small console utilities run from the server. On 6/18/08, Tomasz Chmielewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mscdex schrieb: Right now the messages would work when wpkg.js is executed, after the user logs in. This situation is fine by me because I have certain domain groups assigned to at least a certain wpkg base profile (e.g. students, teachers, office staff) and so wpkg would need to be executed after logon. I have the client machine(s) set to not display the desktop shell until the logon scripts have completed and because of that all they see is a wallpaper background while wpkg is running (no sense in giving the user the idea wpkg is finished when it isn't, especially if an auto-reboot is required). I thought during this time if wpkg was performing any tasks, a useful message(s) could be shown so that the they do not assume the system has hung or has crashed. Also, I thought it would be especially nice to have a message displayed if an automatic reboot was needed after installing a new application/upgrade/removal, something like rebooting in 5 seconds... Wouldn't WPKG Client with logon delay enabled solve your problems, including rebooting in 5 seconds? Note that displaying custom messages is available in testing versions of wpkg.js and WPKG Client. -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org - Reporting bugs, all WPKG mailing lists http://wpkg.org/Support ___ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users
