[wpkg-users] Wifi-Only Clients & Software Deployment

[Holger Kröber]

Hi,

more and more clients in our environment no longer have a LAN cable 
plugged in regularly.
Most of the time, they have a wifi connection. This has some side 
effects for software deployment with WPKG.
WPKG is executed in the context of the system account trough Group 
Policy startup scripts (Active Directory), before user login.
But this will only work, if the client already has established a 
connection to the LAN at this time.
With WIFI, the connection is established after the user has logged in - 
this is too late :)

How do you manage this in your environment?
Do you use tasks that run in the system context after the user has 
logged in and are executed as soon as the WIFI connection is established?
How do you avoid conflicts (user tries to execute the program that you 
want to upgrade right in the middle of the installation process etc.).
How do you give the user feedback about the installation process? If you 
install software in the system context, the user normally won´t
see any messages because of session 0 isolation.

Thanks,
Holger