I've added links to screenshots of what I have so far in my message class on the "user contributed software" wiki page. On 6/18/08, mscdex <mscdex at gmail.com> wrote: > > I agree using the wpkg client service would do this, but I am looking to > have the smallest footprint possible by having everything executed from a > script on the server. From what I've seen in the wpkg client, I've already > been able to implement its features that I'd be using for my situation, > using WSH (things like before and after wpkg processing, running as an > account with higher privileges to allow software > installations/upgrades/removals, etc) or small console utilities run from > the server. > > On 6/18/08, Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo at wpkg.org> wrote: >> >> mscdex schrieb: >> >>> Right now the messages would work when wpkg.js is executed, after the >>> user logs in. This situation is fine by me because I have certain domain >>> groups assigned to at least a certain wpkg base profile (e.g. students, >>> teachers, office staff) and so wpkg would need to be executed after logon. I >>> have the client machine(s) set to not display the desktop shell until the >>> logon scripts have completed and because of that all they see is a wallpaper >>> background while wpkg is running (no sense in giving the user the idea wpkg >>> is finished when it isn't, especially if an auto-reboot is required). I >>> thought during this time if wpkg was performing any tasks, a useful >>> message(s) could be shown so that the they do not assume the system has hung >>> or has crashed. >>> >>> Also, I thought it would be especially nice to have a message displayed >>> if an automatic reboot was needed after installing a new >>> application/upgrade/removal, something like "rebooting in 5 seconds..." >>> >> >> Wouldn't WPKG Client with logon delay enabled solve your problems, >> including "rebooting in 5 seconds"? >> >> Note that displaying custom messages is available in testing versions of >> wpkg.js and WPKG Client. >> >> >> -- >> Tomasz Chmielewski >> http://wpkg.org >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/attachments/20080619/6688083d/attachment.html> |