Hi. Whereas the wpkg service is a nice thing I still prefer using a group policy startup script at least within Active Directoy environments. To make the end user experience a bit more pleasent I wrote a small program called wpkgMessage which displays a splash screen during installation. This splash screen can also be updated from within the package scripts so the package which is currently beeing installed will be displayed. If anyone is beeing interrested please let me know so I can share it with the community. For inter process communication I'm using mailslots which is quite straight forward. IMHO it would be a good idea to implement something similar directly into wpkg. This way any third party program like wpkg service could connect to the mailslot and track status and progress of the wpkg installation process. Regards, grubi. |