Re: [wpkg-users] Message box for notifying users
I've added links to screenshots of what I have so far in my message class on the user contributed software wiki page. On 6/18/08, mscdex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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
Re: [wpkg-users] Message box for notifying users
mscdex schrieb: I've added links to screenshots of what I have so far in my message class on the user contributed software wiki page. Good. The download link doesn't seem to work, though? I mean, it goes to some page (megaupload.com) which is supposed to host InfoMessage-0.1.zip, but the file can't be downloaded, as there is no link to the file? -- 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
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
[wpkg-users] Message box for notifying users
First off I'd like to thank the developer(s) of WPKG for all the hard work they've put into this. WPKG has proven to be extremely useful for a network I'm currently setting up. Recently while I was setting this network and WPKG up, I thought it would be nice to have a message window of sorts display to inform the user of what was happening while WPKG was executing. I noticed the messenger service is currently used to inform the user of status updates, but it seemed to take awhile to receive the message plus it'd be nice to have something that didn't depend on the messenger service and looked a bit nicer. 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. My message box solution right now features the ability to simply specify an (optional) title bar/header as well as the message text. Both the background and foreground colors of the header and message text can be set, and the message text can be optionally centered. One last thing, on systems with IE7 installed I had to incorporate a workaround to get messages to look like they do in IE5 through IE6. The reason for this is because with IE7, there has been a security check put in place to keep scripts on websites from resizing less than 250px wide and 100px tall (and from setting certain unallowed window positions). Unfortunately I wasn't able to find a way to get around this using pure WSH scripting so I wrote a tiny little AutoIt script (and compiled it to exe form) that bypasses said limitations and it only executes when IE7 is detected. If anyone is interested in what I currently have, let me know and I'll see if I can host it somewhere. - 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
