[wpkg-users] Registry change during boot and roaming profiles

[cleitet at gmail.com]

Hi,

Try a "newer" version of pstools with the -accepeula switch.

More info here:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/sysinternals/archive/2006/12/05/updates-pstools-and-sysinternalssuite.aspx

-CL

2010/7/22 Sebastian Hoffmann <sebastian.hoffmann at pallas-group.de>

>  Hello list,
>
> I think I've a conceptional problem: I've got computers running W2k which
> are not capable of the "taskkill" command used in the firefox package to
> kill any running firefox-processes. So I decided to use pskill instead of
> taskkill. But on the first run of pskill it asks the user to accept the
> eula. I found a .cmd file on
> http://forum.sysinternals.com/topic8783_page7.html which sets a registry
> values indicating that the eulas of all sysinternals tools have already been
> accepted.
> Now I tried to make my own package file with this command, but only working
> for pskill:
>
> <packages>
> <package
>     id="pskilleula"
>     name="Accept pskill EULA"
>     revision="1"
>     reboot="false"
>     priority="99">
>
>     <check
>         type="registry"
>         condition="equals"
>         path="HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\PsKill\EulaAccepted" value="1"/>
>
>     <install cmd='REG ADD "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\PsKill" /v
> EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f'>
>         <exit code="0" />
>         </install>
>
>   <--  <upgrade cmd='%SystemRoot%\System32\msg.exe * /TIME:10 "upgrade"'>
>         <exit code="0" />
>         </upgrade>
>     -->
>
>     <remove cmd='REG DELETE "HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\PsKill" /v
> EulaAccepted /f'>
>         <exit code="0" />
>         </remove>
>
> </package>
> </packages>
>
>
>
> The value gets correctly set and works fine. My problem now is the remove
> command: When a client is booting up the registry key gets deleted by wpkg
> irunning in delayed logon mode. But when I login as a domain user using
> roaming profiles, the old registry becomes restored from the roaming profile
> on the server and the key also gets restored. But the wpkg.xml file in
> system32 has already deleted all information belonging to "pskilleula" and
> the package is marked as not installed.
>
> I know, it doesn't make much sense to remove this key, but I'm interested
> in the problem itself. How can I act in such circumstances when designing my
> own package files?
>
>
>
> --
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen
>
> Sebastian Hoffmann
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