I have Samba and about 40 WinXP Clientes running. Now I?m trying to find a way to deploy software (for example updates of E-Mail Client, Windows Patches) to my Clients. I was playing around with AutoIt and some "switch-user-tools" for windows, which really works but also is kind of complicated and time consuming. In my environment, every user got his own Logonscript on the Linuxserver where I place the call for an installation (for ex Thunderbird update). If the installation on the client succeeded, I need a feedback signal from the user (e-mail, phone call...) that the script ran properly and I can remove the call in this script. I could also use one Logonscript for all users and turn on machines by myself in the morning if a certain user is not in the office. But all this does not seem to be the best way for me. I?m really interested if there is another possibility to achieve this more efficiently without buying an expensive deployment software for Windows Server or something like that. So far I did not have a closer look at unattended.sourceforge.net, maybe someone has experience with that. Thanks a lot regards -- Martin Miethe
Martin Miethe schrieb:> I have Samba and about 40 WinXP Clientes running. > Now I?m trying to find a way to deploy software (for example > updates of E-Mail Client, Windows Patches) to my Clients. > I was playing around with AutoIt and some "switch-user-tools" for > windows, which really works but also is kind of complicated and time > consuming. > > In my environment, every user got his own Logonscript on the Linuxserver > where I place the call for an installation (for ex Thunderbird update). > If the installation on the client succeeded, I need a feedback signal > from the user (e-mail, phone call...) that the script ran properly and I > can remove the call in this script. > I could also use one Logonscript for all users and turn on machines by > myself in the morning if a certain user is not in the office. > But all this does not seem to be the best way for me. > I?m really interested if there is another possibility to achieve this > more efficiently without buying an expensive deployment software for > Windows Server or something like that. > So far I did not have a closer look at unattended.sourceforge.net, maybe > someone has experience with that.Unattended is really great when it comes to initial workstation deployment (operating system + applications, settings etc.). AutoIt is not really a good way to do software maintenance - it depends on so many factors, that it can't be used reliably IMHO (although of course it can be useful for many other tasks). For deployment of new software / upgrading, you may take a look at WPKG - http://wpkg.org :) -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org
Hi Martin, i use a tool which is named reexec http://www.veloci.dk/index.asp?visnu=reexec/reexec.htm if you integrate this in a computername.bat ( netlogon script ) and build software packs which silent installs reexec will deploy the pack out of the batch, you can also use it later from a windows client it needs no heavy batch coding and is very handy for smaller networks it freeware, i just tested it with the new thunderbird release Regards Martin Miethe schrieb:> I have Samba and about 40 WinXP Clientes running. > Now I?m trying to find a way to deploy software (for example > updates of E-Mail Client, Windows Patches) to my Clients. > I was playing around with AutoIt and some "switch-user-tools" for > windows, which really works but also is kind of complicated and time > consuming. > > In my environment, every user got his own Logonscript on the Linuxserver > where I place the call for an installation (for ex Thunderbird update). > If the installation on the client succeeded, I need a feedback signal > from the user (e-mail, phone call...) that the script ran properly and I > can remove the call in this script. > I could also use one Logonscript for all users and turn on machines by > myself in the morning if a certain user is not in the office. > But all this does not seem to be the best way for me. > I?m really interested if there is another possibility to achieve this > more efficiently without buying an expensive deployment software for > Windows Server or something like that. > So far I did not have a closer look at unattended.sourceforge.net, maybe > someone has experience with that. > Thanks a lot > regards >-- Mit freundlichen Gruessen Best Regards Robert Schetterer robert_at_schetterer_dot_org Munich / Bavaria / Germany https://www.schetterer.org