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I have four questions about the Device Update Agent.
1. Can i set it to poll for updates on media that is not there all the time
What i mean is that we may want to put updates on a USB key which appears as
drive D: to the system. But of course if we unplug the key the drive
disappears. Will this cause problems? I don't want the DUA to slow my
system down because it's trying to access a drive that is not there and
timing out.
2. What if i don't want to contiually poll for updates but install updates
using an option in my program.
I like the idea of generating a script that the DUA runs to perform the
updates esecially as this is a complied script so no-one can change it prior
to installing updates. BUT i'd like to be able to start off an update from
within my application. I guess that if i have a blank polling schedule and
select "Run on Satrt" then start the service from within my application that
would do what i want.
3. Can i stop an application thats already running from a DUA script.
Our application runs all the time but occassionally we may need to update
the executable so we'de need to stop it. The DUA script reference lists
commands for executing a program but not for stopping them. Can i move my
application to a different filename and replace it whilst it's still running
then re-boot to get the new application to run? One of the example scripts
in the help system does this to update a system file.
4. about rebooting during update.
From my breif loom at DUA scripting i can make the system re-boot during an
update. After the re-boot does the update script complete before anything
else starts. for example we Autologon a user and startup our application.
would the update script complete before the autologon and our application
starting or would we have to disable our application whilst the update script
completes.
If there is another way of handling updates (both windows system and our
application) please let me know.
1. Can i set it to poll for updates on media that is not there all the time
What i mean is that we may want to put updates on a USB key which appears as
drive D: to the system. But of course if we unplug the key the drive
disappears. Will this cause problems? I don't want the DUA to slow my
system down because it's trying to access a drive that is not there and
timing out.
2. What if i don't want to contiually poll for updates but install updates
using an option in my program.
I like the idea of generating a script that the DUA runs to perform the
updates esecially as this is a complied script so no-one can change it prior
to installing updates. BUT i'd like to be able to start off an update from
within my application. I guess that if i have a blank polling schedule and
select "Run on Satrt" then start the service from within my application that
would do what i want.
3. Can i stop an application thats already running from a DUA script.
Our application runs all the time but occassionally we may need to update
the executable so we'de need to stop it. The DUA script reference lists
commands for executing a program but not for stopping them. Can i move my
application to a different filename and replace it whilst it's still running
then re-boot to get the new application to run? One of the example scripts
in the help system does this to update a system file.
4. about rebooting during update.
From my breif loom at DUA scripting i can make the system re-boot during an
update. After the re-boot does the update script complete before anything
else starts. for example we Autologon a user and startup our application.
would the update script complete before the autologon and our application
starting or would we have to disable our application whilst the update script
completes.
If there is another way of handling updates (both windows system and our
application) please let me know.