Kevin – Thank you for the
link to http://wpkg.org – About 12 of the
apps I want to deploy after deploying Bacula in that manner, are supported by
this system! What was going to take me about 3 weeks, I can now get done in the
next week or so, and I will again look like an amazing miracle worker to
everyone!
Thank you!
From: Kevin Keane
[mailto:subscription AT kkeane DOT com]
Sent: 19 December 2009 02:52
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Install Bacula-FD on windows en masse?
(grouppolicy)
I started using GPOs
for deploying software, and ditched it pretty quickly. Too many limitations;
the biggest of them is that it can only install MSI files, not applications
packaged as executables or any other way.
Of course you can
create MSI files yourself with tools such as makemsi, but it’s a pain.
Instead, I am now
using WPKG to deploy quite a lot of software (Adobe Reader, Firefox, Opera,
Microsoft Office, and, yes, bacula-fd) http://wpkg.org/
It works 99% with
bacula – the only problem is that the bacula uninstaller is not
completely silent (the dialog “do you want to remove configuration
files” pops up even in silent mode), so removing bacula is a bit of a
pain. Not enough for me to even file a bug report, though…
From: Gabriel - IP Guys
[mailto:Gabriel AT impactteachers DOT com]
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 6:24 AM
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Subject: [Bacula-users] Install Bacula-FD on windows en masse? (group
policy)
Dear All,
I was wondering if anyone has installed bacula-fd via group
policy. I’ve got a project in front of me to install bacula on 30 servers
as a test. I would be glad to know if anyone has already written a guide
to using bacula in association with ad/gpo for a deployment
