I tried it and it said no parameters specified. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Handy Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 5:07 PM To: 'Leon Hedding (ICT)'; Rainer Meier Cc: wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] Thanks for everything - WPKG is nice but it still needs improvement
I was thinking the same thing. So basically if I run cscript \\Store1\WPKG\wpkg.js /force it should work? I will try this Steve -----Original Message----- From: Leon Hedding (ICT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 5:04 PM To: Steve Handy; Rainer Meier Cc: wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org Subject: RE: [wpkg-users] Thanks for everything - WPKG is nice but it stillneeds improvement Steve, >From my understanding, once WPKG has confirmed that the software has been >installed it will add that information to wpkg.xml and no longer check to see >that the software is installed. To make it always check that the software is >installed (and not use wpkg.xml) you need to run it with a /force command. >Read through this http://wpkg.org/WPKG_flags to see what each of the command >line flags do. Cheers, Leon Hedding -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Handy Sent: 26 March 2008 21:55 To: 'Rainer Meier' Cc: 'wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org' Subject: [wpkg-users] Thanks for everything - WPKG is nice but it stillneeds improvement Importance: High Gentlemen I want to thank you for everything. We engaged in some great conversation today. WPKG is a great tool. I will use it on the LAN level within my organization. However at the offsite level, the program still needs some improvement. The WPKG still DOES NOT reinstall software when a user removes it. Incrementing the revision of course is not the answer. I agree with Rainer on this. When a solution is available please let me know. Thanks guys Steve Handy -----Original Message----- From: Rainer Meier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 4:18 PM To: Steve Handy Cc: 'Adam Williams'; 'wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org' Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] Can WPKG install packages while user is at desktop - Lets move on the 2nd problem Hi Steve, Steve Handy wrote: > One more thing though. Why is it that when I uninstall the firefox, and then > run the cscript \\.... /sync.., the program doesn't install. As written already many times either you used execute="once" or the checks still evaluated true. In case (parts) of an application is still running it is quite common that the uninstall entry is not entirely removed until the next reboot (when uninstall is finished, files are removed and uninstall entry is cleanded). So WPKG might still find the uninstall entries unless you reboot and therefore thinks the application is still installed. > Let's move on Rainer: > > So basically what I have I good. Great. Okay, now here is the 2nd dilemma. > > We have employees here at my organization. They have offsite laptops. > Currently they use the Windows PPTP VPN client to connect to the company from > outside. When they initially boot, they DO NOT HAVE a network connection > established. (So WPKG will NOT install software at this point). When they > arrive at their respective desktops, they establish a network connection via > Sprint broadband air cards they have. They then click the VPN icon to > establish a VPN connection into the company. > Here is where WPKG comes in, I need the WPKG to execute the cscript \\Store1\WPKG\wkpg.js /Synchronize /quiet and check for packages that need to be installed. (and install if necessary). > > How do I make this happen? Well, you don't need WPKG to invoke itself as you wrote. You need to configure your VPN software to run WPKG when the connection is up and running. I know that some VPN clients (OpenVPN for sure) allows you to define some scripts to be run after connection establishment. There you can simply add a batch script to execute WPKG. Today I wrote already as an answer to another request that you might simply run the WPKG service from command line instead of manually invoking the wpkg.js script. Of course this only applies if you installed WPKG client and the service is available. If yes, then you might use the command net start WpkgService to run the WPKG service again. This works perfectly fine if you configure WPKG client to terminate after wpkg.js terminated (see configuration). If not, then you might need to execute 'net stop' before to terminate the still running service: net stop WpkgService net start WpkgService NOTE: The user executing this commands needs privileges to start/stop Windows services. Alternatively you might execute WPKG on a regular base using the Windows task scheduler (twice per day? up to you...). WARNING: If you run wpkg.js manually (using 'cscript ....' then all variables defined in WPKG client are not defined. You need to write a small batch script which is doing this part of WPKG client if you like to do so. Something like: @echo off set SOFTWARE=... cscript ....\wpkg.js /synchronize > In addition we are now eliminating the PPTP VPN client method and using a SSL > VPN method where our employees are taken to a webpage via a public url > https://portal.callglobalcom.com and thru active x components are brought > "inside the company" How can WPKG work in this scenario? The SSL VPN is > created by a Sonic Wall device. Again, you need to ask your VPN provider how to implement a post-connection script where you can run WPKG. Or just run it regularly using the task scheduler. Most VPN solutions should support such a requirement. If not then you can go for the task scheduling option or ask users to execute the software update manually after connection (which is the last option I would go for). If you need to use the task scheduler you can (AFAIR) create a task which is run as the SYSTEM user. Just execute the 'net start WpkgService' command as described above by such a task. If you do this twice a day it will not affect users too much. Recent versions of WPKG client also allow you to check server connectivity first. So if WPKG client (invoked by 'net start WpkgService') discovers that your 'server.companydomain.local' does not exist, then it will even not try to invoke wpkg.js and terminate immediately. HTH, Rainer HTH, Rainer ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Do you use WPKG? 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