[wpkg-users] Viewing software installed on workstations

Joe joe at freakyacres.com
Fri May 16 18:53:32 CEST 2008


Rainer Meier wrote:
> Hi Joe,
<snip>
> This is absolutely correct due to the fact that WPKG 1.x does not waste 
> system resources any more by flushing an incomplete wpkg.xml after each 
> package.
> 
> If you really need to get the absolutely latest version of the local 
> wpkg.xml I recommend putting a batch file onto the server and have WPKG 
> client running that batch file instead of wpkg.js directly.
> 
> This allows to launch wpkg.js and then copy wpkg.xml with the batch script.
> 
> Oh wait, I just found another option. Put the command (cmd /C copy 
> %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\wpkg.xml \\server\wpkg-xml\%COMPUTERNAME%.xml /Y) 
> to a batch script and add it to WPKG client configuration within the 
> "Execute after" configuration. This should do the trick.
> 
> br,
> Rainer

Ok... Thanks...  I was going crazy for a bit trying to figure out
why the files never matched.  Might want to add this to the docs
on http://wpkg.org/Viewing_software_installed_on_workstations




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