Re: [wpkg-users] Delayed sevice start
WPKG Client has a few settings you might try. I haven't experimented with logon delay, but it's there under Logon Settings / Execution mode. In my environment we had some new PCs that were too fast and the network wasn't ready by the time WPKG started, so it would fail. We set Misc settings / WPKG execution on failure / Repeat count to 3 and it retries 3 times, which is long enough for the network to be ready. You could probably set it much higher to keep it retrying for a while. On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Alan Adams a...@adamshome.org.uk wrote: Is there a way to delay the start of the wpkg service? I have two reasons for wanting to do this. First when using WindowsXP Home on laptops, the wireless network doesn't start until after login, so the wpkg service has run and given up before the network appears. For this situation, wpkg needs to start after login has completed. Secondly with a classroom of 30 wireless laptops starting up, wpkg is using so much aggregate bandwidth dragging down large msi's (e.g. Adobe Reader) that logging in can take up to half an hour. In this case delay after login would work, or delay after startup. For the former case I have had to resort to a scheduled task running every 15 minutes doing net stop and net start on the service. There doesn't seem to be an option to run once some period after login, but it can be set to run periodically starting at login. 15 minutes was chosen to reduce the risk of stopping wpkg while it was doing an installation, against the risk of the laptop being shut down before it had started - many lessons are only 15 minutes long. -- Alan Adams, from Northamptonshire a...@adamshome.org.uk http://www.nckc.org.uk/ - wpkg-users mailing list archives http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ ___ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users - wpkg-users mailing list archives http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ ___ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users
Re: [wpkg-users] Empty remove command
Am 22.11.2011 13:38, schrieb Rainer Meier: Hi Jonathan, On 22.11.2011 12:34, VERDEYEN Jonathan wrote: About .NET Framework, it is installed on all our computers by WSUS, my point in making Dynamics AX depend on it is to make sure it's installed or force its installation before installing Dynamics AX (on a newly installed computer for exemple). But then there might be other software not managed by WPKG or even drivers that need it so I'd rather not have WPKG uninstall it, I guess I will either put it in a base profile or use some trick to prevent the uninstall. For me this looks likeyou dont want to use WPKG to manage the .NET framework at all. So it might be the best solution not to create a WPKG package and set dependencies. Instead you could simply call the .NET installer as one of the install commands of your application. We do use WSUS to deploy Windows updates and WPKG for software too. We just make sure to have the Windows updates finished before we start the WPKG software deployment. You can still create a package for .NET with only a check defined, just to be able to define the dependency for the software. This is possible and makes things really easy. The software will not be installed until .NET is installed, so you don't have to wait for the Windows updates to be finished, but I would advice you to do so. -- Stefan P. Top-posting: A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? - wpkg-users mailing list archives http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ ___ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users
Re: [wpkg-users] add entries to hosts/services file
Am 22.11.2011 18:46, schrieb Joe: Does anyone have any tips on how to add entries to the windows (7 and xp, 32 and 64 bit) hosts and services files? This highly depends on the scripting languages you are fluent in. BTW, I didn't have to add any entries into those files for a few years now, so I would check to have a proper network configuration first (DNS, DHCP, etc.). -- Stefan P. Top-posting: A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? - wpkg-users mailing list archives http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ ___ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users
Re: [wpkg-users] [Bug 257] XML error when using templates
Am 22.11.2011 13:35, schrieb bugzilla-dae...@bugzilla.wpkg.org: http://bugzilla.wpkg.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257 Rainer Meierr.me...@wpkg.org changed: What|Removed |Added Status|RESOLVED|REOPENED Resolution|FIXED | --- Comment #5 from Rainer Meierr.me...@wpkg.org --- I've noticed as well that there is no root element missing as the root element is added by the templating construct. Well, it seems I've broken something which prevents queries now. I will have to have a look at it (maybe this evening). Re-opening the issue due to the comments of Stefan about broken Query. Remove is working as expected. Now testing install... -- Stefan P. Top-posting: A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? - wpkg-users mailing list archives http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ ___ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users
