Re: Windows XP SP2 deployment - Adminstrative install issue

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From: Chris Henderson (please_at_dont.ask.com)
Date: 11/10/04 

Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 13:58:57 -0800

I wish I could have the same luck. It seems SP2 doesn't want to deploy. I
don't even get a "cant deploy" message in the event log.

Chris

"Brian Hoops" <bhoops@remove.stoughtonutilities.com> wrote in message
news:udcqi71xEHA.2348@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>I ran into the same problem, however the service pack did deploy correctly
>after skipping that step.
>
> -Brian
>
>
> "Chris Henderson" <please@dont.ask.com> wrote in message
> news:uHqdfy1xEHA.1188@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have an issue with instructions found at
>> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/deploy/gpdepsp2.mspx
>>
>> When deploying XP SP2 through GPO, the article seems to say to first
>> extract WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe and then to Run the administrative
>> installation to copy the files to the distribution point using the
>> following syntax
>>
>> msiexec /a \\ServerName\SharedFolder\Update.msi
>>
>> My question is the following: When I run the above comand on the
>> fileserver, is \\ServerName\SharedFolder\Update.msi the path to the
>> extracted Update.msi file? If it is, I get the following message:
>>
>> "microsoft requires the use of the "machine assigned" distribution method
>> when using update.msi"
>>
>> This does not make any sense to me. Can I simply extract the
>> WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe file to a directory then assign a GPO
>> software distribution package to the update.msi in that directory?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Chris
>>
>
>

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