> -----Original Message----- > From: wpkg-users-boun...@lists.wpkg.org [mailto:wpkg-users- > boun...@lists.wpkg.org] On Behalf Of ????? ?????????? > Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 6:07 AM > To: wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org > Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] Periodical wpkg script execution from wprg > client > > On Среда 24 марта 2010 16:01:01 Kevin Keane wrote: > > If you have a Windows domain, you could use SHUTDOWN.EXE to > automatically > > reboot all computers at some point in the middle of the night. If > your > > computers have Wake on LAN, you could even automatically shut all of > them > > down at 10 PM, and use WoL to wake them up (and run WPKG) much later > in > > the morning. > > > > Be aware that this will be a somewhat painful experience for users > the > > first time round; you may want to let them know in advance. > Otherwise, > > they may leave some information unsaved and find that they lost it > in the > > morning. > > There are very top-ranking coleagues, that do not turn off their > computers. > For example, my director. My rank is too small to tell him, what he > should do. > Usually, such users says me that they do not need any updates. > I am to deply applications and application updates quietly and > transparent to > users.
I understand where you are coming from. Dealing with users, high-ranking users in particular, sometimes can be tricky. Sometimes it may help to explain to them that just as a car needs to go to the shop for maintenance, a computer does, too. But you are right, political concerns can be a problem. I don't know your situation, of course, but sometimes it may actually help for you to think of the situation differently. Your managers didn't hire you just to do a job. They actually hired you because a problem needs to be solved. Think of yourself as a "lawyer" part of whose job is to tell the manager "hey, to solve this problem, I need you to do X, Y and Z" rather than a mechanic who just has to get wpkg to work. That said, having such a strategy of "automatic reboot every night" may actually help you deal with that issue. You will have the issue of disruption anyway if one of the "quietly deploying apps" requires a reboot. By scheduling a reboot every night, you make this predictable and hide it at a time when he is asleep. What people hate about rebooting etc. is primarily that they don't have control. People will happily spend an hour playing solitaire but get upset about a five-minute reboot. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
