Hi Luca, Luca Manganelli wrote: > Some questions: > > 1) can WPKG download and install a package in background, while the user is > working, not just before the login screen?
Yes it can. Basically WPKG is a service running in background. All its tasks can be performed in background. The logon delay is just imposed if configured on WPKG client. Nobody forces you to use this feature. Personally I never used it in production. However there are some constraints when running WPKG in background. The user might start applications and due to this fact some upgrades might fail (files locked while in use). So either you have to live with some failures or you need to take this into account when building the packages. For example a Firefox upgrade might fail in the background if the user is currently running Firefox. To solve this you might use taskkill to kill all instances of Firefox right before starting the silent installation in background. However this kills the user session and the User might not like it ;-) Alternatively (how I do it) you might just run WPKG on Windows startup. Usually logon takes a while and WPKG has enough time to run all updates in the background even before the user runs a program. If it happens that one fails due to the fact that the user was "faster" then proper package checks will detect on next reboot that the package has not been applied and WPKG just tries again. In general this approach works pretty fine while not blocking the users or giving them any hint that WPKG is doing something in the background. > 2) same as before, can it do an uninstall in background ? Same answer as above. Uninstalls where some files are locked might fail. By the way most Windows-Installer packages handle this case pretty fine. Locked files are just removed on next reboot. br, Rainer ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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