[wpkg-users] Updates without taskkill?

[Bernhard Mayr]

Hi,

for computers, that don't get rebooted regularly, I use a windows task that
restarts wpkgservice once daily early in the morning before business
starts.
One can also specify in the task, that the task should wake up the computer
to execute the task and/or that if the the task can not be run at the
specified time, it should be executed later but as soon as possible.
This should ensure, that wpkg runs when no one is using the computer or
immediately when it is woken up.

Alternative:
Disallow suspend to disk and enforce hard reboots e.g. powercfg -h off

regards

Bernhard


Am Mo., 15. März 2021 um 23:17 Uhr schrieb Andreas Schamanek <
schamane at fam.tuwien.ac.at>:

>
> Hi fellow wpkgers,
>
> Due to the fact that Windows 10 does a suspend to disk even at the
> so-called "shutdown" I created a scheduler task that runs WPKG every 8
> hours. This works, however, the disadvantage is that some updates,
> e.g. for Thunderbird, require a taskkill, e.g. I am using
>
>    taskkill /F /IM Thunderbird.exe
>
> Now since updates might run while a user is logged in and is actively
> using the application killing it is not good :}
>
> What approaches are you using to work around this?
>
> In my particular setup it's actually only 2 programs that are affected
> by this: Thunderbird and Firefox. Do you suggest that we should rely
> on Mozilla Maintenance Service? I haven't tried it for some years,
> now, because it didn't work back then on computers where users have no
> administrative rights at all. I am afraid that hasn't changed.
>
> --
> -- Andreas
>
>       :-)
>
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