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we have a number of users with laptops who work out of the office
most of the time (i.e. they come into the office 1 or 2 times a
year).<br>
others are remote desktops which never come to the office<br>
<br>
what I want is for the client to:<br>
<ul>
<li>connect to a central server somewhere (could be via VPN or a
restricted server on the internet)</li>
<li>download any new or changed files in the background (like
Windows Updates)</li>
<li>execute wpkg (possibly next boot to avoid killing running
applications whilst we update them)</li>
<li>(optionally) send the log file back up to the central server</li>
</ul>
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I initially thought that off-line / laptop mode was for this, but on
reading further I realise it's to stop the clients trying to access
the server when they can't, useful, but no help here.<br>
I looked around to see if there was anything that anyone had already
done to help in this scenario - but I can't find anything helpful.<br>
So I've started to code a solution, I'm getting on well, but there's
a lot of work to do, and I thought it was about time I checked with
the mailing list in case someone else knows something that will
already do this.<br>
It may be that it's obvious, but just called something my brain
won't think of (so I'll never find it using search)<br>
<br>
I've considered using offline files to make the remote folder
structure available locally, but I've no way of ensuring that things
will be updated locally in the correct order to make them execute
right.<br>
My current idea is to run wpkg at boot as normal, then as the last
task download any new/changed files using BITS (the part of Windows
Updates which does the trickle download of new patches) then these
new versions should get installed next boot.<br>
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Does anyone know of anything that will do what I'm after already?<br>
and if not<br>
Would anyone else be interested in using this when I get it ready?<br>
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Dave </pre>
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