Re: Added re-run functionality to todo.pl; new script wuinstall.bat

Juan Jose Pablos schrieb:
> Johannes Singer escribió:
>> I created a ticket (#35 
>> <https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/unattended/ticket/35>) for 
>> wuinstall.bat and the required changes to todo.pl, and I also added 
>> the wiki page, with a warning that it only works with the patched 
>> todo.pl, of course.
>> Is there anything else I can do?
> no, Brilliant. i feel that I need to get out a 4.9 and use this and 
> the new way  of format the disk on the repository version.
> WDYT?
Please test this extensively before rolling this out in a stable 
version, as sometimes, when WSUS is not reachable, or some settings are 
wrong on the computer or group policy, it can run into an endless loop 
of retrying to connect to an update server, failing and then restarting 
itself. This is, kind of, by design.

The problem is, sometimes all it needs is a "gpupdate" to fetch the 
correct settings from the AD, but the (currently commented out) 
".expect-reboot gpupdate /boot" does not reboot if nothing has changed 
and just exits, and then the computer sits there, logged on, waiting for 
a reboot that will never come.
Is there a way to force a reboot, but only if the called command does 
not do it itself?

When using a group policy with WSUS configuration, you actually only 
need to update the group policy only once, if at all, so I have a 
seperate entry for gpupdate, and do not need to call it before every 
wuinstall call. This I had to do after the call to "auconfig.pl" in 
base.bat, as this overwrites group policy settings required for using a 
WSUS, I think.

The WSUS Client Diagnostics Tool is very useful in finding problems.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/wsus/bb466192.aspx

One more thing, do not call wuinstall.bat before the "todo.pl 
%%WINVER%%-updates.bat", this breaks some of those updates when it tries 
to install them again. On the other side, if the wuinstall is working 
reliably, we do not need this anymore. At least as long as the wuinstall 
program is freely available.
I tested this script without the scripted updates, and it seems to work 
without problems.

Regards,
    Johannes


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