instead allowing users to easily
> logon or for the spiceworks system to translate the senders email address
> into user info from the Directory.
>
>
> http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/33838-help-desk-authentication-and-openldap
>
>
> Paul
>
> **
I've got the Spiceworks/wpkg combo and it's a great solution but the OP
said he didn't have Windows server and AD available so Spiceworks wouldn't
be an option.
On 14 November 2012 18:27, Paul McGrath wrote:
> This is our combination too. We utilise an Exchange mailbox and AD
> integration in
I've got a single machine setup at home with Secunia PSI (
http://secunia.com/). I get notified when there are updates available then
use this as a prompt to start testing at work.
It isn't perfect but it (mostly) does the job.
On 24 October 2012 07:26, John Danks wrote:
> You can follow the RS
Depending on your OS there are xml checkers available. I do most of my wpkg
updates using Notepad++ which has a plugin available for this purpose.
Essentially if you try to save a malformed xml file it tells you it has an
error and gives you a line number to check.
HTH,
Peter
On 30 May 2012 15:1
The Cisco VPN client also temporarily disables network interfaces during
installation. I get around the issue of dropped connection to the installer
by copying the client installation files to the local client, running the
installation then deleting the installation files once the install has
finis
Thanks. That's the missing bit of info I'd overlooked.
Peter
On 8 September 2011 17:31, Marco Gaiarin wrote:
> Mandi! Peter Gough
> In chel di` si favelave...
>
> > Any ideas whether what I'm trying to do is possible?
>
> Yes:
>
> Pref: set the v
Hi,
I'm in the process of deploying Firefox to our users. I'd like to initially
set their homepage to our organization's homepage but allow them to change
this as they wish.
When I follow the instructions here (
http://wpkg.org/Firefox#Setting_and_Locking_Preferences) and amend the
mozilla.cfg fi
hen I'm back in work and try and narrow
> down where I'm going wrong!!!
>
> BTW, how does everyone else deploy software with WPKG? Push or Pull?
>
> Cheers,
> D.
>
>
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Peter Gough wrote:
>
>> That's also the way I re
That's also the way I read it.
Can you check that the account you're using for the updates has
permissions (RWXD) to write the file in %windir%\system32.
On 01/06/2011, at 6:07 AM, Rainer Meier wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
> On 31.05.2011 20:05, k.ijs...@eqaz.nl wrote:
>> Did you gave the file 777 ri
The way mine is setup is that each package has its own .xml file in the
packages folder (there's a bit about this here: http://wpkg.org/Packages.xml
).
So, for example, I would create a file called hardcopy.xml to manage this
package. As long as you specify the package id and this matches the name
Hi,
Unfortunately I've not been able to get this working for my Win7 clients.
Instead I'm currently running a simple login script that checks the OS. If
it returns a Win7 machine then it runs the following command and exits:
cscript \\server\wpkg\wpkg.js /synchronize /quiet
If it returns an XP
27 October 2010 19:44, Alexey wrote:
> :))
> Oh! I lost some text here. Due to the fact that the install SP3 on some
> computers is more than 1,5 hours to the user to display "Please wait for the
> screen". I want show "WaitScreen" only on the PC, where SP3 wil
Alexey,
I'm not too sure what you're asking here. Are you having problems deploying
this package?
Regards,
Peter
On 27 October 2010 18:02, Alexey wrote:
> Hi, All!
>
> After news about the support ended of XP SP2 (
> http://support.microsoft.com/gp/windowsxpsp2) we decide install SP3 all
> o
Deltacopy is a Windows app that can be installed on a client and used to
connect to an rsync server. There are details on installation here:
http://wpkg.org/DeltaCopy
The main disadvantage of RoboCopy is that if a file is changed then the
whole file is recopied. This might be okay for small files
You could use cacls in a batch file for installation. Hopefully some of the
examples in existing packages should point you in the right direction:
http://wpkg.org/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=cacls&go=Go
On 16 September 2010 05:11, Todd Blum wrote:
> Hello,
>
>I am using WPKG f
If you're running Active Directory then you might want to check out Group
Policy Preferences. Far and away the easiest way to manage local accounts
(including resetting local user passwords). It relies on your workstations
having the Group Policy Preference Extensions installed and you'll need at
l
Group Policy Preferences will do this if you've got Active Directory up and
running.
Lots of info here:
http://www.gpoguy.com/Portals/0/Group%20Policy%20Preferences%20Overview.pdf
On 6 April 2010 19:16, Vladimir Psenicka wrote:
> I think no, it can be done via logon script on server.
>
> Dne 6.
I've got this running as a batch script and use group policy to run this at
shutdown on my clients. Works great, assuming you've got Active Directory up
and running ;-)
On 9 March 2010 03:10, Pendl Stefan wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> > I want to check the installed packages with the wpkg report.
> >
...or instead of using \\server\wpkg as the share name try \\
server.mydomain.com\wpkg (i.e. the fully qualified domain name) which tricks
Windows into thinking that you're using a different network resource.
On 27 February 2010 22:09, Vasaris wrote:
> > I try join windows xp to domain with netd
I can confirm that the download works okay from Australia.
In terms of software deployment we'd love to stick to simply deploying msi
packages using group policy but this just isn't a practical position for
most of us. Given the variety of software delivery options employed by
vendors we looked fo
Yes, all true and well worth clarification.
I only offer my advice based on my own experience which is that without
careful testing it is difficult to predict exactly what the implementation
of wpkg will have. I've certainly tripped up more than once as a result of
my own ill-conceived check condi
Agreed but this isn't the scenario I was describing.
Simply put if for some reason I decide to rollout Firefox v3.5 to all of my
clients but some of my users have already installed v3.6 then wpkg may
install the older version over the top of the newer version assuming I use a
check condition that
My experience is that this is *mostly* true.
For example if you decide to roll out v1 of a package but a user has already
manually installed v2 and your check only looks for v1 files then you could
potentially have a situation where wpkg tries to install the older version
on top of the newer versi
It works for me on Ubuntu 9.04.
Dan - would you be happy for this to be made available on the wiki?
On 24 February 2010 17:27, Daniel Dehennin wrote:
> Justin Brinegar writes:
>
> > What version of python must I use to use this?
> >
> > I get this:
> >
> > (11:15:33) 1005 /Users/brinegar/Deskto
I've setup my Windows XP WPKG clients to use a domain user account to
connect to my server's WPKG share. Unfortunately in a moment of stupidity I
reset the password for this account. Is there a way to reverse engineer the
encrypted password in the settings.xml file?
Thanks,
Peter
I've never managed to get this to work for my clients. It's a bit of a pain
but I end up replacing the %software% variable in my individual package.xml
files with the FQDN of my server's share. For some reason my wpkg clients
even insist on the FQDN and won't resolve the hostname alone.
On 18 Febr
wrote:
> On 02/05/10 08:54, Peter Gough wrote:
>
> I've tried updating my test clients to 1.3.9 but get an error messsage
>> relating to the WPKG service. I understand from previous correspondance
>> that there are known issues with this version on SP3 - hopefully th
version on SP3 - hopefully these will be
ironed out at some stage in the future but I'm pretty happy for the time
being with what I've got working.
Many thanks for all of your hard work in providing WPKG; it really is much
appreciated!
Peter
On 5 February 2010 17:12, Rainer Meier wrote:
Pendl,
I just wondered if you couid confirm what your users see on the screen when
the workstation is shutting down. I've never been able to get anything to
display apart from the alternating status messages despite trying to set
this up as you have described.
I've got this set in the Client's WP
Do them on the weekend and claim the overtime ;-)
2009/7/28 Rainer Meier
> Hi,
>
> Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> > I did some experiments with multicasting (copy the file to the local
> > machine using multicast), but it didn't work reliably and setup was
> > complicated.
> >
> > In reality, it pe
I know, but sadly my skills don't lie in programming :-(
2009/6/17 Tomasz Chmielewski
> Peter Gough wrote:
>
>> It would be great if it was possible to put in a delay of some sort before
>> the window appeared. For example if there was a delay of say 20 seconds
&
It would be great if it was possible to put in a delay of some sort before
the window appeared. For example if there was a delay of say 20 seconds
before the window was displayed then the chances are that wpkg.js would have
completed its checks and the user wouldn't see the window as it would
alrea
The other thing you could try is running it without the /qn switch on a test
machine to see what's really happening during the uninstall, although
Rainer's suggestion is probably the way to go for Office.
2009/4/18 Rainer Meier
> Hi "mattmole"
>
> mattmole wrote:
> > I am attempting to uninstall
I'm happy for this to sound a bit dumb idea but do you need a space after
the /x switch in this line?:
I'm not sure how finickety msiexec is on syntax.
Pete
2009/4/17 mattmole
>
> Hi All,
>
> I am attempting to uninstall Microsoft Office 2003. I have used the example
> from wpkg.org to creat
schedule
installs to suit them. After all, nobody wants the full MS Office install
kicking off when they're about to present their PowerPoint slides to the
CEO!
2009/3/16 Tomasz Chmielewski
> Peter Gough schrieb:
>
>> AFAIK in MS world it doesn't really matter. You can use switc
AFAIK in MS world it doesn't really matter. You can use switches if you're
installing packages using scripts.but if you assign a package via GP then
the user sees a message at startup or logon telling them that Windows is
installing (or removing) a package. Obviously this isn't a true silent
instal
I've yet to see the WPKG logon window so if you've got any
recommendations for troubleshooting its disappearance that would be great,
otherwise I think I'm pretty much sorted!
Peter
2009/3/16 Tomasz Chmielewski
> Peter Gough schrieb:
>
>> Does this mean that if I wa
ying to get my head around
what benefit I get from installing the client.
Thanks,
Peter
On 16/03/2009, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
>
> Peter Gough schrieb:
>
>> The MS approach is that you must use transform files (.mst) to modify the
>> package. There are apps which will let you
The MS approach is that you must use transform files (.mst) to modify the
package. There are apps which will let you work with these (Orca and InstEd
both spring to mind) but there is no way to directly enter command line
switches in AD.
Peter
On 16/03/2009, bugzilla-dae...@bugzilla.wpkg.org <
bu
Adam Williams wrote:
>
> for option 3, the cscript dos client can only connect to file shares as the
> guest account. also cscript doesn't exist on XP/Vista 64-bit, you have to
> use the GUI client. the GUI client comes as an .msi you should be able to
> push out via group
I'm trying to get my head around the best way to implement WPKG in our
environment but am struggling to work out the most appropriate options.
We're running Windows Server 2003 with Active Directory and Windows XP SP3
on workstations.
I have created a share, granted read-only permissions to my 'wp
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