Advanced Client Installations on Restricted W2K machines

From: Jon Yonke (JonYonke_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/12/04 

Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 12:11:34 -0800

I finally figured out why half of my 220 W2KPro client machines have not
installed the SMS advanced client, they don't have file and print sharing
enabled.

Here is my dilemma:

We have group policies setup so only Domain Admins or Computer
Administrators can install software to help us maintain appropriate
licensing. Also our images have file and print sharing disabled to reduce
clutter in Network Neighborhood (although half of our images got out with
file and print sharing enabled, which in this case is fortunate). Neither of
those restrictions is going to change.

I can put our domain users in an administrative group on the Domain side of
the equation and install the SMS client via login scripts, but I do not to
allow my users access to install programs even for a minute, unless I can
"supervise" the installation.

I can't "Push" the SMS client out because there is no administrative share
to attach to, and I certainly can't go to each machine and install the SMS
client (with any kind of acceptable efficiency that is).

The question is: How can I install the remainder of my clients without
changing "security" settings or sitting down at each machine?

Thanks for listening,

Jon Yonke

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