Revision as of 09:08, 21 May 2009

If you use WPKG, we would be glad to hear what you think about it.

Please specify on how many workstations you use it, with what type of network (Samba, Active Directory, mixed, etc.), and other information that you think could be useful.

Also, it would be interesting, although not necessary, to specify your name and/or country, company/university/school, with links etc.

Universities, colleges, schools, other educational

We use WPKG for around 500+ computers running winXP. Really simple to use and maintain. The Auth on our network is AD2003 but all file and critical services are Debian + Samba + winbind + DRBD. -- http://www.woodcroft.sa.edu.au Woodcroft College Adelaide South Australia.

We are in the process of deploying WPKG on to a network of around 70 PCs: have been impressed by the flexibility that WPKG offers for determining which workstations get which packages. Very nice. -- Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford

Openbare basisschool Jaarfke (primary school, the Netherlands) uses WPKG to distribute software packages to about 20 Windows 2000 workstations. The server is a Linux/Samba based domain controller. When a pc breaks down, we simply press F12 for a network service boot and after a few hours the pc is up and running again. Thanks to WPKG and Unattended maintenance efforts are minimized.

We are using WPKG in a Samba(Linux) based domain. We are deploying WPKG on about 250 worksations. It's really simple to use! Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon

I just finished a project for Schule Schongau in Switzerland. Here we manage about 15 computers using WPKG. All server-backend runs on Gentoo/Linux. In addition I implemented a linux-based RIS server (check out Linux-RIS for details, thanks to Sherpya). The installation is currently running on WPKG version 0.9.11-test1 directly accessing the configuration from WPKG-web. Through one single RunOnce entry it is possible to automatically install WPKG at the end of the setup process. After a restart it starts to deploy the software - very clean and smoothly.

At the University of Washington Biostatistics Department, we support over 100 computers using WPKG on a Samba network. WPKG has the flexibility to cater to the needs of several different classes of users, from students to research faculty to administrative personnel, all while reliably installing all of the software that each of those users needs.

We use WPKG in a Samba3+XP environment, on about 60 workstations. We are a secondary school, Kosztolányi Dezső Gimnázium

I also manage computers in few schools here in Canada, roughly 300 machines. I use WPKG and Unattended.sf.net. I can even fathom not to use it. Now, if I could just figure how to install legacy apps - like adibou - I would be the happiest man on heart.

And also, common, cloning is so 2000!

I work in 9 small schools that mainly use Win98 machines as "servers" and use it to deploy software installs in combination with Autoit scripts. Approx 300 computers in total.

Réseau des Bibliothèques de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris

We use WPKG to deploy software on about 120 workstations in our nine libraries. The file server is Samba.

We use WPKG on SambaEdu 3 networks.
An interface has been developed to administrate available packages on the server.
This interface is integrated within the interface of the SambaEdu server. It allows to:
- upload an upgrade packages from http://www.crdp.ac-caen.fr/forum/index.php.
- associate packages with groups of machines or individual hosts.
- display status of packages installed on the hosts.

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.

Government

Mississippi Department of Archives and History uses WPKG for approximately 100 computers spanning multiple geographic locations and buildings. Almost all of our servers are CentOS Linux, with a few Windows 2003 Servers for proprietary applications.

CPTTM uses WPKG to manage hundreds of computers in its office and classrooms.

Camp Navajo recently started using Unattended and WPKG to maintain approximately 100 Windows XP workstations. Originally discovered when looking for a Norton Ghost replacement, WPKG has become our new choice for automated software updates. Our distribution point is an ancient HP Brio running OpenBSD with its Samba shares mounted on an internal SATA drive. It doesn't take much!

Companies

We use WPKG on about 200 workstations, both with Samba and Active Directory. It is very flexible and saved us a lot of work. We don't use AD's built-in software deployment capabilities, because they were too limited and allowed only MSI installation - we use WPKG solely instead.

Syneticon Networks

We use it on about 80 workstations (no AD) in the publishing department of taz. WPKG is very good for also deploying and updating (not-MSI-)Software like Seamonkey, VLC and so on.

We use wpkg as part of an automated build process that installs Windows and all the required software. We don't have a Windows domain - it's all controlled via Samba - without wpkg we'd probably either have one great big mess of batch files or we'd have had to shell out for all the necessary parts that make up an Active Directory domain.

We use WPKG on about 50 workstations in a linux/Samba directory environment. We are a versatile engineering firm and we have to support numerous different configurations, sometimes with complex setting tweaks for different applications. We prefer WPKG since it supports all formats, not just .msi. Through the use of simple WPKG functions paired with .bat scripts for additional configurations, we are able to satisfy all needs. Try WPKG if you need any type of automated software deployment.

Boston Engineering Corporation

I'm deploying to 87 workstations (mixed 2K/XP) in the site under my administration. It beats manual install by a long shot... Active directory don't work for me (only msi, need to make transforms..., etc...) I'm currently using eleven packages (mainly office tools) and calling wpkg from active directory machine boot scripts.

Other / unspecified

We use WPKG on about 100 workstations with Active Directory. It's really easy and flexible.

We use a Samba/LDAP Domain and for about 40 Windows XP PCs WPKG represents the software deployment tool. Its simple, reliable and efficient

Montreal, Quebec