Changes
→Universities, colleges, schools, other educational
And also, common, cloning is so 2000!
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- associate packages with groups of machines or individual hosts.<br>
- display status of packages installed on the hosts.<br>
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http://www.haydonbridgehigh.co.uk
15 schools within the Haydon Bridge Partnership of Schools in Northumberland, UK, now use WPKG on their peer-peer networks to fully automate software installations and relevant system changes. With close to 1000 computers to support, WPKG has proved critical in delivering effective ICT Support with a very low number of staff (2 at the time of writing!) in the team. The schools span 700sq miles, a huge area.
WPKG is used alongside a Buffalo NAS or an existing Cachepilot firewall/web-filter/file server for storing the WPKG config files and software packages.
We use WPKG alongside LogMeIn Free (www.logmein.com) to provide remote software deployment which has recently been improved further through use of DropBox (www.getdropbox.com), a distributed file sharing program, which now allows me to synchronise the package files and relevant software packages across all schools without having to manually download them at each site - highly useful when remote support is used.
After being pointed to WPKG in early 2009, the rollout across all 15 schools has saved massive amounts of time - credit has to go to the developers of this completely free, but highly effective program, which previously I have only had access to comparable products on commercially available network management solutions.
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