[wpkg-users] (not) using psexec to push client

[Kevin Keane]

Yet another option is to use Group Policies to push WPKG to the clients. 
As a matter of fact, I updated the Wiki with a description of how I did 
that.

Kai Pastor wrote:
> I don't like to add yet another remote access tool (psexec etc.) to 
> the clients.
>
> I use the remote scheduling features of schtasks. From a central 
> administration server (only this one gets through the clients' 
> firewall) I schedule the run of the installation on the clients 
> (running as the clients SYSTEM account). I don't know if this works 
> outside of Windows domains.
>
> Bye, Kai.
>
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> Petersen, Tom schrieb:
>> I am new to all of this but actually managed to get things working for
>> the most part using the documentation online.
>>
>> Once the client is installed my packages install ok.
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>> I tried using this to push the client:
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>> c:\PsTools\psexec -u usdsu.local\username -p password @ucs186.xml -d
>> msiexec /i "\\usdsu.local\storage\its\uc-its\wpkg\WPKG Client 1.2.1.msi"
>> /qb SETTINGSFILE=\\usdsu.local\storage\its\uc-its\wpkg\settings.xml
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>> (replacing username and password with the correct ones)
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>> I then get this for all 32 machines. (correct machine names, and
>> different process ID on each of the 32 machines)
>>
>> \\UCS18602:
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>> msiexec started on UCS18602 with process ID 692.
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>> That is all I get, not sure if I was supposed to get any feedback on if
>> it was successful or not.  And the client is not installed on the
>> machines.  Is there a way to look at that process id somewhere???
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>> Any help on this would be greatly appreciated, hope this is the right
>> place to post this question.
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>> TIA!
>>
>> Tom
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