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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: (<i>GPExtentionFeature,ADMComponentFeature,WPKGGPClientFeature.
</i>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: <strong>WPKG file path, </strong><strong>WPKG
Parameters, </strong><strong>WPKG Verbosity</strong> . 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.<br>
Thank you very much for the response.<br>
<br>
On 23.06.2010 г. 23:50 ч., Lukasz Zalewski wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:4C22739A.4080805@dcs.qmul.ac.uk" type="cite">On
22/06/2010 14:49, Stanislav Zhelyazkov wrote:
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Is there a way to deploy WPKG-GP trough
WPKG client? I want to deploy it
<br>
silently and to set all setting from
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://code.google.com/p/wpkg-gp/wiki/InstallationGuide">http://code.google.com/p/wpkg-gp/wiki/InstallationGuide</a> maybe
trough
<br>
registry. Is it possible WPKG client and WPKG-GP to work
together?
<br>
<br>
</blockquote>
Hi Stanislav,
<br>
You can deploy WPKG-GP client through WPKG as you would any other
msi, e.g.
<br>
msiexec.exe /i wpkg-gp-versionnumber_[x86|x64].msi
ADDLOCAL=listoffeatures /qn
<br>
where list of features can be combination of any of
(GPExtentionFeature,ADMComponentFeature,WPKGGPClientFeature)
<br>
<br>
Do you intend to use it in a domain environment?
<br>
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
<br>
if you using samba3 with a bit of tweking you can deploy it to the
clients through system policy.
<br>
Otherwise install the adm template and apply it as a Local Group
Policy.
<br>
<br>
As for running together i think its more trouble that its worth.
<br>
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.
<br>
<br>
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
<br>
<br>
Regards
<br>
<br>
Luk
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
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Станислав Желязков Желязков
Системен администратор
Бакалавър по Информатика и ИТ в бизнеса
Център за информационно и компютърно обслужване (ЦИКО)
Русенски университет "Ангел Кънчев"
България, 7017 Русе, ул. Студентска 8
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e-mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:slavizh@uni-ruse.bg">slavizh@uni-ruse.bg</a>
phone: +359 82 888 595
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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. </pre>
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