I've got the Spiceworks/wpkg combo and it's a great solution but the OP
said he didn't have Windows server and AD available so Spiceworks wouldn't
be an option.
On 14 November 2012 18:27, Paul McGrath j.p.mcgr...@leeds.ac.uk wrote:
This is our combination too. We utilise an Exchange mailbox
this instead allowing users to easily
logon or for the spiceworks system to translate the senders email address
into user info from the Directory.
http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/33838-help-desk-authentication-and-openldap
Paul
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*From:* Peter Gough [mailto:pmgo...@gmail.com
I've got a single machine setup at home with Secunia PSI (
http://secunia.com/). I get notified when there are updates available then
use this as a prompt to start testing at work.
It isn't perfect but it (mostly) does the job.
On 24 October 2012 07:26, John Danks john.da...@gmail.com wrote:
Depending on your OS there are xml checkers available. I do most of my wpkg
updates using Notepad++ which has a plugin available for this purpose.
Essentially if you try to save a malformed xml file it tells you it has an
error and gives you a line number to check.
HTH,
Peter
On 30 May 2012
Thanks. That's the missing bit of info I'd overlooked.
Peter
On 8 September 2011 17:31, Marco Gaiarin g...@sv.lnf.it wrote:
Mandi! Peter Gough
In chel di` si favelave...
Any ideas whether what I'm trying to do is possible?
Yes:
Pref: set the value at every startup, user can alter
Hi,
I'm in the process of deploying Firefox to our users. I'd like to initially
set their homepage to our organization's homepage but allow them to change
this as they wish.
When I follow the instructions here (
http://wpkg.org/Firefox#Setting_and_Locking_Preferences) and amend the
mozilla.cfg
That's also the way I read it.
Can you check that the account you're using for the updates has
permissions (RWXD) to write the file in %windir%\system32.
On 01/06/2011, at 6:07 AM, Rainer Meier r.me...@wpkg.org wrote:
Hi Kevin,
On 31.05.2011 20:05, k.ijs...@eqaz.nl wrote:
Did you gave the
software with WPKG? Push or Pull?
Cheers,
D.
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Peter Gough pmgo...@gmail.com wrote:
That's also the way I read it.
Can you check that the account you're using for the updates has
permissions (RWXD) to write the file in %windir%\system32.
On 01/06/2011
The way mine is setup is that each package has its own .xml file in the
packages folder (there's a bit about this here: http://wpkg.org/Packages.xml
).
So, for example, I would create a file called hardcopy.xml to manage this
package. As long as you specify the package id and this matches the
Hi,
Unfortunately I've not been able to get this working for my Win7 clients.
Instead I'm currently running a simple login script that checks the OS. If
it returns a Win7 machine then it runs the following command and exits:
cscript \\server\wpkg\wpkg.js /synchronize /quiet
If it returns an XP
Alexey,
I'm not too sure what you're asking here. Are you having problems deploying
this package?
Regards,
Peter
On 27 October 2010 18:02, Alexey alexey.dubov...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, All!
After news about the support ended of XP SP2 (
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/windowsxpsp2) we
/27 Peter Gough pmgo...@gmail.com
Alexey,
I'm not too sure what you're asking here. Are you having problems
deploying this package?
Regards,
Peter
On 27 October 2010 18:02, Alexey alexey.dubov...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, All!
After news about the support ended of XP SP2 (
http
You could use cacls in a batch file for installation. Hopefully some of the
examples in existing packages should point you in the right direction:
http://wpkg.org/index.php?title=Special:Searchsearch=caclsgo=Go
On 16 September 2010 05:11, Todd Blum t...@toddblum.org wrote:
Hello,
I am
If you're running Active Directory then you might want to check out Group
Policy Preferences. Far and away the easiest way to manage local accounts
(including resetting local user passwords). It relies on your workstations
having the Group Policy Preference Extensions installed and you'll need at
Group Policy Preferences will do this if you've got Active Directory up and
running.
Lots of info here:
http://www.gpoguy.com/Portals/0/Group%20Policy%20Preferences%20Overview.pdf
On 6 April 2010 19:16, Vladimir Psenicka vladimir.pseni...@prodeco.czwrote:
I think no, it can be done via logon
I've got this running as a batch script and use group policy to run this at
shutdown on my clients. Works great, assuming you've got Active Directory up
and running ;-)
On 9 March 2010 03:10, Pendl Stefan stefan.pe...@haidlmair.at wrote:
Hello,
I want to check the installed packages with
Yes, all true and well worth clarification.
I only offer my advice based on my own experience which is that without
careful testing it is difficult to predict exactly what the implementation
of wpkg will have. I've certainly tripped up more than once as a result of
my own ill-conceived check
I can confirm that the download works okay from Australia.
In terms of software deployment we'd love to stick to simply deploying msi
packages using group policy but this just isn't a practical position for
most of us. Given the variety of software delivery options employed by
vendors we looked
...or instead of using \\server\wpkg as the share name try \\
server.mydomain.com\wpkg (i.e. the fully qualified domain name) which tricks
Windows into thinking that you're using a different network resource.
On 27 February 2010 22:09, Vasaris k...@takas.lt wrote:
I try join windows xp to
My experience is that this is *mostly* true.
For example if you decide to roll out v1 of a package but a user has already
manually installed v2 and your check only looks for v1 files then you could
potentially have a situation where wpkg tries to install the older version
on top of the newer
Agreed but this isn't the scenario I was describing.
Simply put if for some reason I decide to rollout Firefox v3.5 to all of my
clients but some of my users have already installed v3.6 then wpkg may
install the older version over the top of the newer version assuming I use a
check condition that
It works for me on Ubuntu 9.04.
Dan - would you be happy for this to be made available on the wiki?
On 24 February 2010 17:27, Daniel Dehennin daniel.dehen...@ac-caen.frwrote:
Justin Brinegar brine...@physics.unc.edu writes:
What version of python must I use to use this?
I get this:
I've setup my Windows XP WPKG clients to use a domain user account to
connect to my server's WPKG share. Unfortunately in a moment of stupidity I
reset the password for this account. Is there a way to reverse engineer the
encrypted password in the settings.xml file?
Thanks,
Peter
I've never managed to get this to work for my clients. It's a bit of a pain
but I end up replacing the %software% variable in my individual package.xml
files with the FQDN of my server's share. For some reason my wpkg clients
even insist on the FQDN and won't resolve the hostname alone.
On 18
:
On 02/05/10 08:54, Peter Gough wrote:
I've tried updating my test clients to 1.3.9 but get an error messsage
relating to the WPKG service. I understand from previous correspondance
that there are known issues with this version on SP3 - hopefully these
will be ironed out at some stage
Pendl,
I just wondered if you couid confirm what your users see on the screen when
the workstation is shutting down. I've never been able to get anything to
display apart from the alternating status messages despite trying to set
this up as you have described.
I've got this set in the Client's
, Peter Gough wrote:
I just wondered if you couid confirm what your users see on the screen
when the workstation is shutting down. I've never been able to get
anything to display apart from the alternating status messages despite
trying to set this up as you have described.
I've got this set
Do them on the weekend and claim the overtime ;-)
2009/7/28 Rainer Meier r.me...@wpkg.org
Hi,
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
I did some experiments with multicasting (copy the file to the local
machine using multicast), but it didn't work reliably and setup was
complicated.
In reality,
It would be great if it was possible to put in a delay of some sort before
the window appeared. For example if there was a delay of say 20 seconds
before the window was displayed then the chances are that wpkg.js would have
completed its checks and the user wouldn't see the window as it would
The other thing you could try is running it without the /qn switch on a test
machine to see what's really happening during the uninstall, although
Rainer's suggestion is probably the way to go for Office.
2009/4/18 Rainer Meier r.me...@wpkg.org
Hi mattmole
mattmole wrote:
I am attempting to
from installing the client.
Thanks,
Peter
On 16/03/2009, Tomasz Chmielewski man...@wpkg.org wrote:
Peter Gough schrieb:
The MS approach is that you must use transform files (.mst) to modify the
package. There are apps which will let you work with these (Orca and InstEd
both spring to mind
AFAIK in MS world it doesn't really matter. You can use switches if you're
installing packages using scripts.but if you assign a package via GP then
the user sees a message at startup or logon telling them that Windows is
installing (or removing) a package. Obviously this isn't a true silent
to suit them. After all, nobody wants the full MS Office install
kicking off when they're about to present their PowerPoint slides to the
CEO!
2009/3/16 Tomasz Chmielewski man...@wpkg.org
Peter Gough schrieb:
AFAIK in MS world it doesn't really matter. You can use switches if you're
installing
The MS approach is that you must use transform files (.mst) to modify the
package. There are apps which will let you work with these (Orca and InstEd
both spring to mind) but there is no way to directly enter command line
switches in AD.
Peter
On 16/03/2009, bugzilla-dae...@bugzilla.wpkg.org
:
for option 3, the cscript dos client can only connect to file shares as the
guest account. also cscript doesn't exist on XP/Vista 64-bit, you have to
use the GUI client. the GUI client comes as an .msi you should be able to
push out via group policy.
Peter Gough wrote:
I'm trying to get my head
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