Hi Tomasz!
A "service", added to each machine created with the help of Unattended, which will check if software installed on each of these machines "matches" a software database in Unattended GUI for a given machine / machine profiles etc.
That is not that easy as it sounds.
One solution might be a Win32-Service Application, running with system and network rights, which performs these checks and starts the update procedure.
You cannot do this with logon scripts because administrator rights are needed for software installation.
Yes, I know it can't be done in a logon script.
However, There is a GPL project called WPKG - http://wpkg.sourceforge.net - which aims to install/upgrade/remove software/packages after the machine was installed.
It can be installed as a service with just a few commands, also when performing an Unattended install.
Configuration files are kept on a central server (like Unattended is), are in XML format, and consist of packages.xml (description of packages), profiles.xml (profiles attached to hosts) and hosts.xml (hosts on the network).
After each boot it connects to the server, checks configuration (XML files), and installs/removes/upgrades software if necessary.
It has no GUI, but the guys are looking for someone capable of writing a http backend to edit XML files.
They even have links to Unattended :)
Tomek
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