Difference between revisions of "Push Install WPKG with Psexec"

Revision as of 18:34, 17 December 2008

It is useful to first grab a list of all of the computers in your domain. This vb script will do so (copy and past it into notepad and then save as getcomputers.vbs)

Const ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE = 2

set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
set textstream = fs.CreateTextFile("hosts.xml", True)
Set rootDSE = GetObject("LDAP://RootDSE")
domainContainer =  rootDSE.Get("defaultNamingContext")

Set objConnection = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Set objCommand =   CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
objConnection.Provider = "ADsDSOObject"
objConnection.Open "Active Directory Provider"

Set objCOmmand.ActiveConnection = objConnection
objCommand.CommandText = _
    "Select Name, distinguishedName from 'LDAP://" & domainContainer & "' " _
        & "Where objectClass='computer'" 
objCommand.Properties("Page Size") = 1000
objCommand.Properties("Searchscope") = ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE
Set objRecordSet = objCommand.Execute
objRecordSet.MoveFirst

Do Until objRecordSet.EOF
    'Wscript.Echo "Computer Name: " & objRecordSet.Fields("Name").Value
    'Wscript.Echo "distinguishedName: " & objRecordSet.Fields("distinguishedName").Value
    arrPath = Split(objRecordSet.Fields("distinguishedName").Value, ",")
    strOU = ""
    for each a in arrPath
          if left(a,2) = "OU" Then
              strOU = "/" & right(a,len(a) - 3) & strOU
            End If
        Next
        'Wscript.Echo "Path: " & StrOU
        textstream.WriteLine objRecordSet.Fields("Name").Value
    objRecordSet.MoveNext
Loop
textstream.close
Wscript.Echo "Finished..."

Ok, so that will save a file called hosts.xml. Edit it to remove any computer names that you don't want to install WPKG on. Copy this file to your root c:\

Download PStools. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897553.aspx

To make it easy, install it to the root of your c:\ drive.

Download the WPKG clientt http://www1.wpkg.org/files/client/stable/WPKG%20Client%201.2.1.msi

and copy it over to a remote share. Also, copy over your settings file to the same remote share.

When you are ready to install, execute this psexec command: (Replacing yourdomain, adminuser, yourpassword, and yourserver with your values)

c:\psexec -y yourdomain\adminuser -p yourpassword @hosts.xml -s -d msiexec /i "\\yourserver\wpkg\WPKG Client 1.2.1.msi" /qb SETTINGSFILE=\\yourserver\wpkg\settings.xml

This will then install WPKG on any of these clients that happen to be on at the time :)