<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Marco Gaiarin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gaio@sv.lnf.it">gaio@sv.lnf.it</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Mandi! Troy Hamilton<br>
In chel di` si favelave...<br>
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> I would recommend using Active Setup (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Setup" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Setup</a> ).<br>
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</div>Very nice, but for me misses some requirement, particulary in this way<br>
there's no way to *impose* a settings, apart clearly build a complex<br>
logon script that check every user registry settings and if different<br>
from the current policy do something (eg, downgrade the policy revision<br>
itself, so at next logon can be installed again).</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, since Active Setup only runs the program/command once for each user (and version of the AS entry) it does not work that well to "enforce" settings as can be achieved via group policies. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I have previously thought about setting up a separate wpkg installation which is run periodically as the logged-in-user to enforce such registry settings, etc. I planned to start cron.exe (<a href="http://www.kalab.com/freeware/cron/cron.htm">http://www.kalab.com/freeware/cron/cron.htm</a>) at login running as the user instead of the SYSTEM account (crons.exe). Then, cron.exe would periodically run wpkg-user-settings.bat which would apply packages based on the users group membership, OU, etc. using Jindrich Vorlicek's enhancements (search the list archives for "More ways of defining hosts in hosts.xml" if interested).</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'd even thought about getting fancy and putting together an HTA or some kind of user interface that would generate xml package files and reg files based on the standard group policy adm files. </div>
<div><br></div><div>But since my organization uses AD GPOs, I never had a pressing need to explore it any further.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
3) Umpfh. A tool WPKG-like but user-based, that run on netlogon scripts. I've lost the link. ;)</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I would certainly be interested in hearing about this tool if you find the link.</div><div>
<br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Troy</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> </blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Looking around i've found interesting project that can mimic the<br>
''microsoft GPO'', particulary:<br>
<br>
1) if you can keep on XP, and eclusively for user settings (for system<br>
settings we have WPKG itself) you can use the ''old style'' NT policy.<br>
Still you can use XP templates, with minor tweaks:<br>
<a href="http://www.pcc-services.com/custom_poledit.html" target="_blank">http://www.pcc-services.com/custom_poledit.html</a><br>
<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/910203/en-us" target="_blank">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/910203/en-us</a><br>
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2) Use LGPO: seems that you can ''deploy'' the Local GPO and so<br>
effectively use them; i've not follow for now this way, but<br>
interesting links are:<br>
<a href="http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/2010-January/006197.html" target="_blank">http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/2010-January/006197.html</a><br>
<a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc784268(WS.10).aspx" target="_blank">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc784268(WS.10).aspx</a><br>
<a href="http://code.google.com/p/wpkg-gp/wiki/GroupPolicyReferences" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/wpkg-gp/wiki/GroupPolicyReferences</a><br>
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3) Umpfh. A tool WPKG-like but user-based, that run on netlogon<br>
scripts. I've lost the link. ;)<br>
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Keeping on XP i'm still using 1, for now.<br>
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