Hi.
I use PSADT together with SCCM.
I have the application configured so that PSADT times out before the application in SCCM.
The question I have is this. Can I configure PSADT so that a timeout does not count as a defer?
The application runs only when a user is logged on, but often employees leave their computers on and locked even when the are not present. I don´t want the deferals to count down at these moments, and I don´t want the installation to run when the user is not present for other reasons.
Thanks for your help.
Hi there, I wasn’t answering because I do not use the Defer functionality.
From what I know you cannot do what you want unless you interfere with the defer counter. doing so would probably be a mess…
I think you could probably get away with not using the Defer functionality
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tell SCCM that you want the SCCM App to install only when the user is present.
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Make PSADT detect if the user is present or not. Either detect if the screensaver is running or use one of PSADT’s Show- functions (See the PDF) to ask the user “Are you there?” in a GUI window that times out after 2 minutes. If it times out, exit the install with:
Exit-Script -Exitcode 1223 #The operation was canceled by the user.
FYI: Windows error 1223 means canceled by the user.
Thanks for your reply.
Its an interesting approach that I might try. However. Searching the main .PS1-script had me found that changing the value in the picture to a value higher than my allowed defers probably will get the job done. Still testing though.
I don’t like changing the mail -ps1-script file, but since there are no built in functions for this, I might give it a try.
I anyone thinks that this might lead to other unexpected behaviour from PSADT, please let me know. I don´t think that there will be a issues with users trying to “hide” the window, and never click, since it recenter it self.
I would not know because… I do not use the Defer functionality in PSADT.
