[wpkg-users] Running at shutdown

2012-02-10 Thread Alan Adams
I'm trying to change some of our computers to run WPKG during shutdown. I've used wpkgclient to change the setting, and saved it. I have a package (Adobe Reader) which should deploy to the computer. It installs using msiexec /i /qb, so there should be a progress bar. During shutdown (Windows 7) I s

Re: [wpkg-users] Merge XML files, remove comments and validate?

2012-02-09 Thread Alan Adams
; ___ > wpkg-users mailing list > wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org > http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users -- Alan Adams, from Northamptonshire a...@adamshome.org.uk http://www.nckc.org.uk/

Re: [wpkg-users] Adobe reader package problem

2012-02-09 Thread Alan Adams
Problem solved. I'd been testing in a folder with the 1.3 wpkg.js, then moved it to a folder with the 1.2 wpkg.js, which doesn't understand > I've been trying to create a package which will update Adobe Reader, > removing any of several possible existing versions first. An added > complication i

[wpkg-users] Adobe reader package problem

2012-02-09 Thread Alan Adams
I've been trying to create a package which will update Adobe Reader, removing any of several possible existing versions first. An added complication is that in the past I've installed two different MSIs which I now discover install the same version. I therefore have to try using both msis in turn t

Re: [wpkg-users] Big Problem with a deployment (LibO)

2012-02-08 Thread Alan Adams
ess it, or contact the  application vendor to verify that this is  a valid Windows Installer package. It usually means there is a type in the path. > Thanks a l

[wpkg-users] Package to do an uninstall?

2012-02-07 Thread Alan Adams
n turn, and due to the 45MB size and the limitations of wireless networks, would cause far too much network traffic and disruption. -- Alan Adams, from Northamptonshire a...@adamshome.org.uk http://www.nckc.org.uk/ - wpkg-use

Re: [wpkg-users] WPKG + Wireless Laptops

2012-02-03 Thread Alan Adams
ers-policies-system-login. > I guess I'll just have try it and see. > - > wpkg-users mailing list archives >> > http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ > ___ > wpkg-users mailing list &

Re: [wpkg-users] WPKG + Wireless Laptops

2012-02-03 Thread Alan Adams
In message <4f2bf516.7070...@pyther.net> Matthew Gyurgyik wrote: > On 02/02/2012 04:18 PM, Alan Adams wrote: >> You've picked up one of the biggest problems with respect to deploying >> software to laptops. In general they are only turned on and connected

Re: [wpkg-users] WPKG + Wireless Laptops

2012-02-02 Thread Alan Adams
sson from starting. (I only have one day every 3 weeks in each school, so doing it out of normal hours is generally not possible.) However the issues described above are making me think it still isn't going to work. --

Re: [wpkg-users] Deploying Adobe Reader to be Default Web Viewer

2012-01-30 Thread Alan Adams
0988 (Scotland) > Web: http://www.uk.om.org > - > wpkg-users mailing list archives >> > http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ > ___ > wpkg-users mailin

Re: [wpkg-users] [Bug 258] Windows 7 64 bit not correctly detected

2011-12-05 Thread Alan Adams
on a 32-bit OS, which is what would happen if the hardware determined the architecture type. Alan > - > wpkg-users mailing list archives >> > http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ > ___ >

[wpkg-users] Updating wpkg client settings via Active Directory

2011-11-24 Thread Alan Adams
this works, I want to minimise the traffic on the wireless network, particularly during startup, as it has a serious impact on lessons. -- Alan Adams, from Northamptonshire a...@adamshome.org.uk http://www.nckc.org.uk/ -

Re: [wpkg-users] Delayed sevice start

2011-11-23 Thread Alan Adams
't found an equivalent registry setting to make it start the wireless before logging in. The problem is not that the wireless is slow to start - you can leave the computer at the login window for an hour, and the wireless still hasn't started. It waits for someone to login before i

[wpkg-users] Delayed sevice start

2011-11-22 Thread Alan Adams
hosen 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://

Re: [wpkg-users] Empty remove command

2011-11-21 Thread Alan Adams
onal useful flexibility. Or have I missed something which allows this anyway? -- Alan Adams, from Northamptonshire a...@adamshome.org.uk http://www.nckc.org.uk/ - wpkg-users mailing list archives >