Hi David, On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 7:00 AM, David Davies <ddavies at apriori.com> wrote: > 2. Instead of on startup prior to login, is there a way to run WPKG > silently from a service after the machine is already on? It would be > nice if I could set it to run at a particular time interval (e.g, every > 4 hours, once per day, etc.), resulting in a periodic pull of new > software sort of like Windows Updates. Here is my method: wpkg-service-install.bat ---------------------------------------------- @ECHO OFF :: Note: be sure that srvany.exe is in the system32 directory and that :: setacl.exe is in your path set server=%1 sc delete wpkg :: This will show a command window to the user ::sc create wpkg binpath= "%systemroot%\system32\srvany.exe" type= own type= interact :: This one won't show them anything sc create wpkg binpath= "%systemroot%\system32\srvany.exe" type= own :: Give limited users permission to start the service setacl.exe -on "wpkg" -ot srv -actn ace -ace "n:Domain Users;p:start_stop" :: Tell srvany where to find wpkg reg add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\wpkg\Parameters" /v "AppDirectory" /t REG_SZ /f /d "%systemroot%\system32 reg add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\wpkg\Parameters" /v "Application" /t REG_SZ /f /d "\\%server%\software\wpkg\wpkg-start.bat :: Start it immediately net start wpkg :: Or wait until the next user logs in ::reg add "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce" /v wpkg /t REG_SZ /d "net start wpkg" /f :: Or run it each time a user logs in ::reg add "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" /v wpkg /t REG_SZ /d "net start wpkg" /f ---------------------------------------------------- With this method, you'll want to make sure that "Domain Computers" or equivalent have access to the share(s) since the service doesn't run as a domain user (although it could). I also have a cron service running on each workstation, so I just have a crontab entry of: 0 0 * * * net start wpkg which runs wpkg each midnight. BTW, I've also got "net stop wpkg" at the end of wpkg-start.bat. Cheers, ---Troy |