[wpkg-users] Windows 7 - Compatible?

[Brent A Nelson]

Either of these approaches could be interesting, but it would be nice to 
give the users a measure of control.  The second approach sounds like it 
will do that, although still not quite as convenient or familiar as the 
Windows Update behavior.  It seems as if wpkg-gp is making good progress 
in this direction...

On Fri, 10 Dec 2010, Troy Hamilton wrote:

> Brent,
>
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Brent A Nelson <brent at phys.ufl.edu> wrote:
>> As things stand now, we've been reluctant to upgrade large packages (say,
>> Office 2007->2010), as this would be applied when they turn on their
>> computers, and they might have to wait an hour before they can use their
>> machines.  But if the user got a notice that the update was ready, they
>> could choose to apply it or be aware that it will install on the next
>> reboot.
>
> Have you considered running wpkg.js outside of business hours (either
> with a scheduled task or cron job) to install such large packages?
> You may also have other reasons for not doing that, but I thought I'd
> ask.
>
>
>> Once you have those features, will you be adding support where a
>> non-privileged user could potentially launch a wpkg upgrade while logged in?
>> Perhaps much like Windows/Microsoft updates, where it could check to see if
>> there are any changes every so often, and then let the user know what
>> changes would be applied and give them the option to proceed? That would be
>> very cool.
>
> At some point in the past, I had an unofficial (custom) wpkg service
> installed, and I used setacl.exe to change the permissions on the
> service so that non-admin users could start it.  I'm not sure if this
> would work with Windows 7 or not, but it might solve half of your
> problem.  I'm pretty sure that services can't interact with the
> desktop in Vista and Win7, so that still leaves the task of notifying
> the user of the update(s).
>
> This might not be exactly what you're looking for, but I thought I
> throw it out there anyway.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Troy
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