WEPA Deployment for Labs

WePa has instructions on how to do a silent install. http://support.wepanow.com/deploy-wepa-print-app-for-mac-to-multiple-public-computers/

I am going to give it a try today. I will let you know if I am successful.

Do you have any updates on this? I'm trying to get it deployed, but running into issues with it. Like having it start on login, which a coworker and I had to build a launchD plist for that.

Bump!

I work for the University of New Mexico and we are going to deploying wepa printing. Anyone been successful in large scale deployment?

TIA,

/randy

Any updates on this one? I'm in the same boat and looking to get this deployed to a bunch of labs on campus. Any help would be appreciated!

Here is my workflow:

I have a policy that installs the WEPA Print App package.

From there I lay down a pre-configured com.wepa.preference.plist.pkg which resides in /Library/Preferences

There is a plist named hubino.WEPA-PrintApp.plist as a dmg with FEU FUT. This appears after installation of the package above and I am not really sure what it does but it is needed.

Then a shell script that sets B&W double sided as the system default and eliminate the "Last Used " issue:

#!/bin/bash
defaults write /Library/Preferences/org.cups.PrintingPrefs UseLastPrinter -bool False
sudo lpoptions -d WEPA_MON_DUP_PDF
exit 0

Hope that gives you all something to go on. It took some testing and effort but I have WEPA working on ~300 Macs on my campus.

/randy

Hi @Randydid , I have deployed the vanilla WEPA Print App pkg but I can't seem to find the com.wepa.preference.plist that you reference above nor can I find the hubino.WEPA-PrintApp.plist DMG that you talk about. Am I missing something in your description? Thanks!

@kricotta, the com.wepa.preference.plist file should be in the actual application package in /Applications, if I remember correctly it'll be called something else, wepa-PrintApp.plist or something along those lines.

My WEPA policy pushes a package that installs the plist to /Library/Preferences (no reason for FEU or FUT), then dumps the vanilla installer in /tmp/mountpt. A script is then run to install the .pkg as directed by their documentation.

@wmehilos thanks so much for your help!

Hi,

Sorry I am slow to respond. I have left UNM and did not have access to the WEPA environment to elaborate. Glad you are getting it sorted @kricotta

/randy

@Randydid no worries, thanks for responding!