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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">From: Daniel Dehennin</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Sent: 02/16/11 08:48 AM</span></span></p>
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Hello,
We are looking at enableing wpkg for windows vista and windows 7
workstations, the delayed logon does not work but this is not a
limitation for us as we run it at shutdown[1].
On windows 7, the wpkg client do not run at shutdown, it looks like
windows kill it before the end.
Another option is to switch to wpkg-gp, but this on do not run at
shutdown[2].
Any idea who do to it?
Regards.
Footnotes:
[1] We do not want to run at startup to avoid delay before people can
work, they do not like waiting before checking their mails ;-)
[2] We tests using a shutdown script which start wpkg client (configured
to run at startup) and loop 30 times making 6 pings every 10 seconds
waiting for the service to stop, not really sexy.
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Daniel Dehennin
RAIP de l'Orne</pre>
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I use wpkclient at shutdown for the same reasons (on Windows XP).<br />
I tested it on Vista and had the same problems as you<br />
(it’s being killed after about 30 seconds).<br />
I did a detailed post about a year ago, but nobody responded.<br />
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After your post I resumed testing on Vista:<br />
I changed some registry settings with no success.<br />
I assume wpkgclient is not supposed to work on Vista/7<br />
and I assume it will not be fixed<br />
(it would be useful if the developers clarified this).<br />
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I considered nightly updates, but apparently GPO shutdown scripts works.<br />
I use wpkgmessage.exe from contrib for visual feedback<br />
(you have to expose GPO scripts and hide the cmd window,<br />
otherwise everyone can kill it or worse).<br />
The timeout for GPO scripts must be increased, I tested 3600 seconds.<br />
gpsvc service PreshutdownTimeout must be increased too, I used 3600000 ms.<br />
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Tests with ping 127.0.0.1 -n 1200 and –n 3000 were successessful.<br />
An installation of Java was apparently successful<br />
(I’m not familiar with Vista file and registry virtualization).<br />
I’ll do further testing, but for now I have to suspend.</span></span></span></span>