[wpkg-users] WPKG and WPKG-GP

[Stanislav Zhelyazkov]

  Yes we have samba 3 domain and we are just starting to implement 
windows 7 in our organization. I like the WPKG client but it doesn't 
display to the user what is doing. Some installations like MS office are 
taking a lot of time and the user my interrupt that process by shutting 
down the PC. I actually in the near future I want to uninstall Office 
2007 and to install Office 2010. The problem is that it have to 
uninstall one application and to install other and this application is 
commonly used by the users and it will be good if some message is 
displayed during that process. This process probably will take a lot of 
time and I don't want the user to interrupt it. I will make some tests 
to use both to see what will happen and which process will take first or 
will they run together. I don't understand how these features work and 
what they do: 
(/GPExtentionFeature,ADMComponentFeature,WPKGGPClientFeature. /If you 
could explain me more I will be glad. I was wondering if I could add the 
template trough registry without doing manually and doing the same for 
these parametars: *WPKG file path, **WPKG Parameters, **WPKG Verbosity* 
. I am sorry if my question is a bit stupid but I just cannot understand 
it from the installation guide. And my last final question is: Will be 
there in the future a way to display installation message through WPKG 
client on windows 7? May be something like MDT 2010 do it with 
installing Windows 7 if you have seen it.
Thank you very much for the response.

On 23.06.2010 ?. 23:50 ?., Lukasz Zalewski wrote:
> 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

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Stanislav Zhelyazkov Zhelyazkov
System administrator
Bachelor of Informatics and IT in business
University Computing and Information Services Center (CISC)
University of Ruse "Angel Kanchev"
Bulgaria, 7017 Ruse, 8 Studentska Str.

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