[wpkg-users] Visual indication that WPKG is still running....

[C. Johnson (IT Services)]

I'd like to be able to walk in to a suite of PCs and visually check which PCs are still running WKPG and installing software.  We regularly wipe and reinstall our suites (3 times per year) and its good to be able to visually see the progress with no interaction.

How do people do this?
We're using the WPKG client.

I thought about resetting the desktop wallpaper with the "execute before" and using  "execute afterwards" to reset the wallpaper but our wallpapers are set at boot up and at log in to display important messages and other useful information (we use BGInfo).  As long as wpkg finished before the user logged in this wouldn't be too much of an issue but I'm wondering if anyone has a more elegant solution.

Thinks....
If I could take the existing wallpaper, back it up, add a watermark to the live wallpaper when starting WPKG then restore the backed up wallpaper afterwards all the information would be there still... unless WPKG changed the wallpaper before the Group policy changes it and then it would make all sorts of mess...


Chris Johnson

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