[wpkg-users] Reflections on a new application deployment software.

[Olivier LARRIGAUDIERE]

Hello,

I currently use WPKG on about fifty computers and I am quite satisfied 
but I am missing a few things so that this to be perfect.

I'm currently thinking about a new deployment tool software for 
Microsoft systems (XP/Vista/7) like WPKG but with the following functions:
- Installed directly as a Windows service (no cscript)
- Retrieve the list of the packages to be installed on the computer from 
an HTTP server (a PHP script that queries an LDAP directory to choose a 
database or xml file like Profiles.xml). The description of the packages 
could be an XML file whose format is identical to WPKG.
- Retrieving of files (installation programs) from an HTTP server
- Signing packages and files to ensure they have not been altered and 
nobody use this tool to install other software.
- Sends the installation state through the HTTP server (a PHP script 
that stores information in a DB)

The tool is divided into two parts. The service running on the computer 
and the script in PHP.

The advantages I see in that new tools would include:
- Securing the installation packages
- Access to the installation status of packages in real time on computers
- Ability to work with LDAP

Thank you for your feedback and sorry for my bad english.

Regards,
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Olivier LARRIGAUDIERE