[wpkg-users] RE Deploying software using AD group membership

[simon.begin at institutsmq.qc.ca]

> My personal recommendation here would be a script/tool which exports ADS
> information to WPKG XML files based on schedule or trigger. However 
there is a
> (yet unsupported) patch for an early WPKG 1.1 version in Bugzilla:
> <http://bugzilla.wpkg.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118>
> 
> I am still having some concerns integrating it into the official 
version. Maybe
> it will make its way in WPKG 1.2 release (where I plan some bigger 
internal
> re-structurings anyway).
>
> (...)

I would'nt import AD user and group lists into XML files, this of course 
could make WPKG rely on other subsystem. And I agree with you this is not 
a good direction to take. In our AD we have > 2000 users and computers, so 
this will quickly make huge and unmaintaneable XML files.

I was thinking of adding some kind of condition statement that could check 
whether the user or computer is in a specified AD group, before assign the 
package. This could be either in profiles.xml or in packages.xml. 

And this could be as simple as we actually do in our KIX logon scripts:

----------
IF INGROUP("AD Group") 
        do something
ENDIF
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Simon Begin
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