[wpkg-users] Silent and/or Periodic WPKG Service?

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

David Davies schrieb:
> I rolled out WPKG recently, and I have a had a number of people complain
> about the 30-45 seconds of apparent "extra" startup time that the WPKG
> Software Deployment Tool inflicts on their systems.  I warned people
> that it would be there, and the delay seems negligible to me, but it's
> not creating a pleasant user experience.
> 
> This leads me to some questions that could lead to feature requests...
> 
> 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.

Don't enable that feature (i.e., set timeout to 0).


> 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.

You could use Scheduled Tasks for that.
Or remote service schutdown/startup if you want to control it from a 
central location.


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Tomasz Chmielewski
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