Software Deployment Issues - Help
From: Mikey (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/24/04
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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 10:48:44 -0700
I'm trying to use software deployment via Group Policy to
push down an in-house application but I am having problems
and can't seem to figure it out. We are about to replace
about 90% of our office PCs over the next three months
with Windows XP Pro boxes (so long Windows 98). Since we
are doing this, we want to take advantage of being able
to "lock down" the machines - especially to keep users
from installing software on them. These workstations have
no cd-rom or floppy drives in them.
So here's the deal - I have created an OU with a couple of
users and created a Group Policy for the OU and assigned
the application to the users. On the workstations, they
are just normal domain users (I did not make them
administrators of their machines). I can log in as one of
the users, and the icon for the application will be there,
but when I go to install it I get an error message that
the user does not have access to write something into the
Program Files directory. I went back into Group Policy and
enabled the "Always install with elevated priviledges" in
both the user and computer configurations, refreshed the
policy, allowed it replicate and tried it again - and got
the same result. The only way I can get the program to
install is to make the user a power user or administrator
of the local machine - which I would seriously like to
avoid. I thought it could have been a problem with the
application so I tried the same thing with Acrobat Reader
(after repackaging) and VirusScan Enterprise and got the
same results. Right now I'm at a loss - can anyone give me
a clue as to what I may have missed?
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