Using Windows Post Install Wizard

Using Windows Post-Install Wizard

Download WPI

• Download and extract WPI.

Preparing WPI to use

• Open WPKG Express 2 in web browser and navigate to menu Windows Post-Install Wizard -> List of packages for WPI;
• Download WPI configuration files. To do this in the page menu, click on the following items:
  • Download WPI configuration file;
  • Download WPKG configuration file for WPI;
  • Profiles of WPKG for WPI;
  • Hosts of WPKG for WPI.
• Download and extract WPKG;
• Copy next files to /path/to/WPI/Tools/Wpkg:
  • config.xml;
  • hosts.xml;
  • profiles.xml;
  • wpkg.js.
• Copy main configuration file config.js to /path/to/WPI/UserFiles.
• Run WPI.exe and press F2 to open the Options Wizard;
• Open the Tools tab and find groups Execute before and Execute after:
  • select the checkboxes Script or program to execute before installation begins. and Script or program to execute after installation is complete.;
  • insert the following line in the text inputs: %ComSpec% /C del /F /Q "%TEMP%\wpkg-wpi.xml";
  • press the Save and Exit buttons.

WPI directory structure:

The structure of the directory containing WPI

WPI.exe
+-- Tools
|   +-- Wpkg
|       +-- config.xml
|       +-- hosts.xml
|       +-- profiles.xml
|       +-- wpkg.js
+-- UserFiles
    +-- config.js

Adding packages to WPI

• Open WPKG Express 2 in web browser and navigate to menu Windows Post-Install Wizard -> List of packages for WPI;
• In the page menu, click on the menu item Add package WPI;
• Select a package and category from the list;
• If necessary, use the Default and Forcibly flags to install the default package or force the package to execute;
• Click the Save button.

Adding categories to WPI

• Open WPKG Express 2 in web browser and navigate to menu Windows Post-Install Wizard -> List of packages for WPI;
• In the page menu, click on the menu item Categories;
• Click the plus button to add a new category;
• Enter the name of the new category and click the Save button.

Viewing log files

• Change to the temporary directory, e.g.: cd %TEMP%;
• View log files by pattern wpkg-wpi-%COMPUTERNAME%@*.log.