[wpkg-users] WPKG and Windows SteadyState Disk Protection

[Jason Castonguay]

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Josh Frome <jfrome at maildev.slcpl.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>     I'm new to WPKG and was wondering if anyone had tips for integrating Microsoft's SteadyState disk protection.  More specifically, SteadyState is configured to remove any changes the the hard drive (a la Deep Freeze, etc) and requires a registry change and reboot to write/save changes to the hard drive.  I have a script that will perform the registry modification and reboot, but I am looking for a way to only call the script when WPKG has made a change (install/uninstall, etc) and not every time WPKG runs (i.e. using a post-action).
>
> What would be the best approach to find out if WPKG has installed/uninstalled packages and if so, enable a reboot script?

Josh,

One way that I went about this was to use the optional auxiliary
script that Steadystate runs when doing windows updates and antivirus
updates.  You'll need to put your cscript wpkg.js call in a .bat file,
but otherwise its really simple.  It won't reboot until its finished
the batch script, so you shouldn't worry about WPKG not finishing in
time.  This is usually set to be overnight anyway.

The thing I'd like to see is to be able to install Steadystate and
enable Windows Disk Protection, via WPKG. I believe installing is
possible, but AFAIK there is no easy way to automate WDP.
-- 
Jason Castonguay