On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 12:06:49 +0000 (GMT)
Matt Johnson wrote:
For those that don't know, RM Connect has a tool that
allows admins to easily monitor changes that an
install makes, and then pushes it out to selected
machines at tthe click of a mouse.
Hi Matt,
We've recently gone through the upheaval of having XP installed on our clients, much against my wishes - I reached the stage of having convinced the incumbent ICT manager that LINUX WAS A GOOD THING and was going to install it over the summer hols last year. Then we received a new ICT head and although he looked into Linux LTSP he was not confident enough to take the plunge and County convinced him to take their solution (Win2k servers and XP clients). I'm still clearing up the mess of the change from Connect 2.4 and a mix of 95 and 98 clients.
However the problem of propagating the applications to the clients was partially solved by using an installer called WinInstall which comes free on the Win2k server disk (also downloadable - google for OnDemand WinInstall). It creates a package with all the changes required inside which then can be manually installed at each m/c. The packages are standard MS *.msi files. The package install can be automated with scripts, although I've not had time to try this out.
regards Rob Maltby