Remote install - no domain

[Jona]

Hi All,

With the latest batches of SIMS updates immiment, we are looking for a way to deploy to 50+ teacher's laptops remotly. The main issue is these aren't on a domain.

 

Ideally we would love some kind of package manager that ran on startup and grabbed a list of stuff to be installed and just got on with it.

 

At present we have a slightly hacky script I wrote that reads a .txt file on the server and then runs a autoIT script if the version number has changed, but this really isn't ideal... Any thoughts, suggestions or helpful bits of software appreciated...

 

Cheers

Jona

[Guest kerrymoralee9280]

Could you not use something called filepush?

 

We use it to push VNC onto machines that need support...

[SimpleSi]

I use WPKG with AutoIt and simple batch files to deploy software to non-domain computers.

 

The clients need a simple script installing that runs on logon and then it will automatically run programs for you - it checks for updates and different computers can get different packages.

 

 

As with everything, there a learning curve and then it pays you back eventually

 

regards

 

Simon