Am Donnerstag, 22. Juli 2010, 18:50:37 schrieb Donny Brooks:
> I am looking at deploying firefox to our users but have a few specific
> requirements I hope someone can point me in the right direction on.
>
> First off I need firefox to NOT check for updates since our users cannot
> install/upgrade
Hi Donny,
On 22.07.2010 18:50, Donny Brooks wrote:
> First off I need firefox to NOT check for updates since our users cannot
> install/upgrade software. Our current installs of seamonkey and acrobat drive
> me
> batty when people start sending helpdesk requests because those programs are
> tryin
I can help with the first:
Extract the setup files from the downloaded executable. In the
nonlocalized\defaults\pref folder you will find a firefox.js. Open that in a
text editor and modify the "pref("app.update.auto", true);" and
"pref("app.update.enabled", true);" lines (about lines 63 and 68
>
> I am looking at deploying firefox to our users but have a few
> specific
> requirements I hope someone can point me in the right direction on.
>
> First off I need firefox to NOT check for updates since our
> users cannot
> install/upgrade software. Our current installs of seamonkey
> and acrob
Hi Donny,
On 22.07.2010 18:34, Donny Brooks wrote:
> Please disregard this as I think I got it with just removing the package entry
> from the profiles.xml portion. Thanks anyways!
Please also note that removing from profiles.xml will make wpkg removing the
package on next synchronization. Assumi
I am looking at deploying firefox to our users but have a few specific
requirements I hope someone can point me in the right direction on.
First off I need firefox to NOT check for updates since our users cannot
install/upgrade software. Our current installs of seamonkey and acrobat
drive me b
On 7/22/2010 11:20 AM, Donny Brooks wrote:
I guess I am missing something here. Our previous sys admin had
installed alot of "junk" via wpkg prior to him leaving and I am in
need of removing it. I know how to install software and upgrade it...
but how would I go about removing it from the clien
I guess I am missing something here. Our previous sys admin had
installed alot of "junk" via wpkg prior to him leaving and I am in need
of removing it. I know how to install software and upgrade it... but how
would I go about removing it from the client pc's? Simply remove the
entry from the pa
Oh no, there was a big failure in my brain :)
I found this forum through google
http://forum.sysinternals.com/eula-prompt-when-running-pstools_topic8783_page7.html
and concluded that the -accepteula switch was only available in older
versions of sysinternals and newer version now require a re
Hi Sebastian,
On 22.07.2010 15:59, Sebastian Hoffmann wrote:
> Yeah thanks, that solved the problem with the Firefox package under W2K for
> me.
>
> I found a "newer" ;-) version, 2.4.2, under
> http://www.grossmatten.ch/share-freeware/Microsoft/SysInternals/PsTools%202.42/PsTools/
>
>
> But
I got it now :-)
Note to myself: Use wpkg only for software - use logon scripts for
per-user settings ;-)
-- Sebastian
schrieb clei...@gmail.com:
Hi again
Well, WPKG is not a really good tool to use for user-specific settings
for a number of reasons. It is intended as a tool to install
Hi again
Well, WPKG is not a really good tool to use for user-specific settings for a
number of reasons. It is intended as a tool to install software for all
users on a workstation.
Your issue with "race conditions" is one example of this. WPKG sets the
registry during boot (I am not sure how you
>
> Yeah thanks, that solved the problem with the Firefox package under W2K for
> me.
>
> I found a "newer" ;-) version, 2.4.2, under
> http://www.grossmatten.ch/share-freeware/Microsoft/SysInternals/PsTools%202.42/PsTools/
>
>
> But what can I do when I have to set registry keys during delayed
Yeah thanks, that solved the problem with the Firefox package under
W2K for me.
I found a "newer" ;-) version, 2.4.2, under
http://www.grossmatten.ch/share-freeware/Microsoft/SysInternals/PsTools%202.42/PsTools/
But what can I do when I have to set registry keys during delayed logon
with r
Hi,
Try a "newer" version of pstools with the -accepeula switch.
More info here:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/sysinternals/archive/2006/12/05/updates-pstools-and-sysinternalssuite.aspx
-CL
2010/7/22 Sebastian Hoffmann
> Hello list,
>
> I think I've a conceptional problem: I've got computers ru
Hello list,
I think I've a conceptional problem: I've got computers running W2k
which are not capable of the "taskkill" command used in the firefox
package to kill any running firefox-processes. So I decided to use
pskill instead of taskkill. But on the first run of pskill it asks the
user t
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