Deploy for PocketPC

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Fredrik Ljungbeck

Hi !

Can you place a PocketPC-application on a server and create a "shortcut" on
the client so that I know my users always run the latest version of a
program ?

Regards,
Fredrik
 
I have an idea about how you might do this, but you'll have to be sure that
your Pocket PC is capable of it (it requires some OS components that might
or might not be present)...

You may be able to connect to a network share from the Pocket PC. This
requires that the 'net' command be used to connect to the shared folder on
the server. Something like "net use locfolder \\servername\sharename"
should create a folder in \Network called \locfolder. If your Pocket PC can
get this far, then you could arrange it so that the \\servername\sharename
folder contains the application that you want to have the user run on the
PPC. You can put a shortcut to the item on the desktop or in the Start
menu, if you want. When that shortcut, or the file itself in the
\Network\locfolder folder is double-tapped, the system will go out across
the network, download the EXE from the server, and run it on the Pocket PC.

Paul T.
 
I have an idea about how you might do this, but you'll have to be sure that
your Pocket PC is capable of it (it requires some OS components that might
or might not be present)...

You may be able to connect to a network share from the Pocket PC. This
requires that the 'net' command be used to connect to the shared folder on
the server. Something like "net use locfolder \\servername\sharename"
should create a folder in \Network called \locfolder. If your Pocket PC can
get this far, then you could arrange it so that the \\servername\sharename
folder contains the application that you want to have the user run on the
PPC. You can put a shortcut to the item on the desktop or in the Start
menu, if you want. When that shortcut, or the file itself in the
\Network\locfolder folder is double-tapped, the system will go out across
the network, download the EXE from the server, and run it on the Pocket PC.

Paul T.
 
Hey! That's the same idea!

John.

Paul G. Tobey said:
I have an idea about how you might do this, but you'll have to be sure that
your Pocket PC is capable of it (it requires some OS components that might
or might not be present)...

You may be able to connect to a network share from the Pocket PC. This
requires that the 'net' command be used to connect to the shared folder on
the server. Something like "net use locfolder \\servername\sharename"
should create a folder in \Network called \locfolder. If your Pocket PC can
get this far, then you could arrange it so that the \\servername\sharename
folder contains the application that you want to have the user run on the
PPC. You can put a shortcut to the item on the desktop or in the Start
menu, if you want. When that shortcut, or the file itself in the
\Network\locfolder folder is double-tapped, the system will go out across
the network, download the EXE from the server, and run it on the Pocket PC.

Paul T.
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Don't look at me! I only posted it once. Network connections to Microsoft
are rather spotty today. Maybe MS received it, but wasn't able to complete
the transaction with my news client, so the client sent it again...

Paul T.
 
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