[wpkg-users] WPKG and WPKG-GP

[Lukasz Zalewski]

On 22/06/2010 14:49, Stanislav Zhelyazkov wrote:
> Is there a way to deploy WPKG-GP trough WPKG client? I want to deploy it
> silently and to set all setting from
> http://code.google.com/p/wpkg-gp/wiki/InstallationGuide maybe trough
> registry. Is it possible WPKG client and WPKG-GP to work together?
>
Hi Stanislav,
You can deploy WPKG-GP client through WPKG as you would any other msi, e.g.
msiexec.exe /i wpkg-gp-versionnumber_[x86|x64].msi 
ADDLOCAL=listoffeatures /qn
where list of features can be combination of any of 
(GPExtentionFeature,ADMComponentFeature,WPKGGPClientFeature)

Do you intend to use it in a domain environment?
If you are using M$ AD or samba4 you should add WPKG-GP.adm to the list 
of the GPO's on your domain controller and configure it there
if you using samba3 with a bit of tweking you can deploy it to the 
clients through system policy.
Otherwise install the adm template and apply it as a Local Group Policy.

As for running together i think its more trouble that its worth.
First you need to consider the race conditions, especially when using 
the same WPKG share - they will both try to write to the same wpkg.xml 
file. I'm not sure what is the order of execution (first policies than 
service startup, or vice versa), you could control service startup from 
the group policy. Secondly some of the installers can't be run side by 
side (like msi's) - this will result in failed installations.

The only way i can see it working is if WPKG-GP client is run during 
startup (it can only run during startup atm), and WPKG client is run 
during shutdown

Regards

Luk