[wpkg-users] Deploying software using AD group membership

[Jacob Jarick]

happy to help wit hADS testing, feel free to send requests to me. 

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[mailto:wpkg-users-bounces at lists.wpkg.org] On Behalf Of Rainer Meier
Sent: Friday, 25 September 2009 3:10 PM
To: wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org
Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] Deploying software using AD group membership

Hi Simon,

simon.begin at institutsmq.qc.ca wrote:
> 
> Does anyone already found a way to deploy software based on an Active 
> Directory Group membership ?
> 
> Here we used to use SMS and (hey this is a really good news for WPKG) 
> we are currently switching on WPKG for simplicity.
> What we did is to make a Group like "App Deploy XYZ", and put Computer

> objects as member of that group.
> Once configured correctly, The call center here was able to deploy 
> software themself without even calling level 2 support - they just add

> another Computer to the AD group!
> 
> I have an idea of scripting this, but I first like to know if it is 
> either planned on wpkg.js or if somebody already has done it.

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).

In general I am not a big friend of doing ADS lookup with JScript
because of stability and portability. Moreover most WPKG users
(including me) do not have an ADS running. So integrating ADS support
would increase testing effort (each patch/release would have to be
tested in detail by somebody having an ADS). Even the patch in Bugzilla
has never been ported/tested for newer WPKG releases.
So for the stable releases I clearly focus on stability and
compatibility for the majority of WPKG users (using plain shares and XML
files).

Having a tool which exports ADS information to XML files would allow ADS
users to run WPKG with ADS "support" while people without ADS are not
affected by code which they will never use.

br,
Rainer
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