Yes we have samba 3 domain and we are just starting to implement
windows 7 in our organization. I like the WPKG client but it doesn't
display to the user what is doing. Some installations like MS office are
taking a lot of time and the user my interrupt that process by shutting
down the PC. I actually in the near future I want to uninstall Office
2007 and to install Office 2010. The problem is that it have to
uninstall one application and to install other and this application is
commonly used by the users and it will be good if some message is
displayed during that process. This process probably will take a lot of
time and I don't want the user to interrupt it. I will make some tests
to use both to see what will happen and which process will take first or
will they run together. I don't understand how these features work and
what they do:
(/GPExtentionFeature,ADMComponentFeature,WPKGGPClientFeature. /If you
could explain me more I will be glad. I was wondering if I could add the
template trough registry without doing manually and doing the same for
these parametars: *WPKG file path, **WPKG Parameters, **WPKG Verbosity*
. I am sorry if my question is a bit stupid but I just cannot understand
it from the installation guide. And my last final question is: Will be
there in the future a way to display installation message through WPKG
client on windows 7? May be something like MDT 2010 do it with
installing Windows 7 if you have seen it.
Thank you very much for the response.
On 23.06.2010 ?. 23:50 ?., Lukasz Zalewski wrote:
On 22/06/2010 14:49, Stanislav Zhelyazkov wrote:
Is there a way to deploy WPKG-GP trough WPKG client? I want to deploy it
silently and to set all setting from
http://code.google.com/p/wpkg-gp/wiki/InstallationGuide maybe trough
registry. Is it possible WPKG client and WPKG-GP to work together?
Hi Stanislav,
You can deploy WPKG-GP client through WPKG as you would any other msi,
e.g.
msiexec.exe /i wpkg-gp-versionnumber_[x86|x64].msi
ADDLOCAL=listoffeatures /qn
where list of features can be combination of any of
(GPExtentionFeature,ADMComponentFeature,WPKGGPClientFeature)
Do you intend to use it in a domain environment?
If you are using M$ AD or samba4 you should add WPKG-GP.adm to the
list of the GPO's on your domain controller and configure it there
if you using samba3 with a bit of tweking you can deploy it to the
clients through system policy.
Otherwise install the adm template and apply it as a Local Group Policy.
As for running together i think its more trouble that its worth.
First you need to consider the race conditions, especially when using
the same WPKG share - they will both try to write to the same wpkg.xml
file. I'm not sure what is the order of execution (first policies than
service startup, or vice versa), you could control service startup
from the group policy. Secondly some of the installers can't be run
side by side (like msi's) - this will result in failed installations.
The only way i can see it working is if WPKG-GP client is run during
startup (it can only run during startup atm), and WPKG client is run
during shutdown
Regards
Luk
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