[wpkg-users] Still confused about Pro & Cons of WPKG-Client, WPKG-GP-Client and Startup-Script

[Jon Rhoades]

Hi Manfred, 

The original WPKG client was fine for Windows XP, when it could hook into Windows startup. Running WPKG directly via a script works in conjunction with something else eg AD, but as you said provides little user interaction. 


The latest WPKG-GP is great as it gives your user some idea of how long the installations/updates will take. Also it handles all of the mounting the network share and using an admin account for you along with time outs in case of network failure (eg an offsite laptop). Unless you have very specific needs, WPKG-GP is the way to go. 


Cheers Jon 

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Jon Rhoades 
Research Information Systems 
Eastern Hill Campus 
The University of Melbourne Departments of Medicine, Surgery and Clinical School & St Vincent's Institute 
www.stv.unimelb.edu.au 
www.svi.edu.au 

----- Original Message -----
From: manfred at hoffmaenner.net 
To: wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org 
Sent: Friday, 21 November, 2014 8:56:17 PM 
Subject: [wpkg-users] Still confused about Pro & Cons of WPKG-Client, WPKG-GP-Client and Startup-Script 

Hello there WPKG-Community, 
let me start by saying thanks for such a wonderful piece of software! 

After reading and testing quite a bit, I am still pretty confused about the Pro & 
Cons of the different ways to run WPKG in a domain-network with Win7-clients. 

( A quote from the WPKG-GP-website: "This has traditionally been done either by 
running WPKG as a Group Policy Script, or by running the WPKG project's WPKG 
Client. The first has several limitations, the second does not support delayed 
logon on Windows >= Vista due to new security features in Windows." ) 

>From what I understand(and have already tested) running WPKG.JS from within a 
startup (or shutdown)-script works well as described here: 
http://wpkg.org/WPKG_with_Active_Directory#Active_Directory_settings. 

The drawback with this method is the lack of feedback for the user about what is 
happening. Are there any other limitations as mentioned in the quote above, that 
I don't see? 


The real confusion(for me!) comes in with the different version of the 
WPKG-Client("vanilla" vs WPKG-GP) when used with Windows Vista or higher. 
Am I right in assuming, that they both support the same set of features, except 
for WPKG-GP also allowing for user-feedback at startup/shutdown ? 

Hope someone can shed some light on these questions for me ;-) 

Cheers and thanks for your time, 
Manfred. 
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