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[Brian Reese]

Hey Guys,

I had a few questions today. First, can you have multiple entries in one .XML file? For instance, if I choose to create an XML for each package and put it in package folder, instead of using packages.xml, could I do something like put 10 packages in each file? Or even separate by profile. This way I don't have an XML for each package nor do I have to find all the packages in one huge file. 

Also, How does WPKG handle package overlap between profiles? If I have two profiles that have the same program and a few users that need to be in both groups, will WPKG detect the first install and add a successful entry to wpkg.xml without reinstalling?

If I have 5 packages in one profile and 3 of them require reboot, If I set those three packages to reboot=true, will it reboot after each package, come back up and process the next one? Or will it recognize all three and just reboot once at the end?

The last question is in regards to a previous post: "Re: [wpkg-users] Silent and/or Periodic WPKG Service?"

>David Davies said:
>> 1. Is there a way not to show the "WPKG Software Deployment" window when
>> the service is running?  I know the idea is to delay login so that WPKG
>> can do its thing, but that's not always desirable.

Tomasz Chmielewski said:
>Don't enable that feature (i.e., set timeout to 0).

I noticed a similar reaction in my office, especially since our logon scripts could use some revisions. If I set my timeout to something like 30 seconds, and a package takes 2 minutes to install, will it stop and fail after the 30 seconds? or will it simply continue the remaining 1m 30s of install time while the user is logged in?

Thanks guys,
-Brian