Re: Software Installation GPO

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Hello Izu,

Here some infos about loopback policy:
http://www.johnkellett.co.uk/index.php/2006/08/26/what-is-the-windows-loopback-policy-and-how-does-it-work/

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/howto/grpolwt.mspx#E6MAG

Login with the special user account from the OU and run gpresult on the command line. The output gives you all the infos. If you like to have it as text file run it like:

gpresult >C:\filename.txt

Best regards

myweb
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myweb,

Thanks for the link, it helped refresh things a bit. One thing that I
was a little hazy on is the loopback policy setting. Do you have a
link for that? The way things are setup here are a little different
than what I'm used to so I'm trying to understand how it works.

They have multiple groups with different GPOs assigned, all with
loopback Replace enabled. How do I know which GPO is being assigned
because it seems like the first is being assigned and it's not
processing the rest? I'm used to assigning GPOs by OU, not by groups
too. Is that normally how it's done?

Thanks.

myweb wrote:

Hello Izu,

The whole GPO will be checked if there is any change, but that didn't
take much time. And software will be only installed one time, except
you change your package and configure it for reapplying.

Have a look here for the start up and logon:
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/b74be6d3-ea6c-
432f-9240-61e73168021d1033.mspx?mfr=true
Best regards

myweb
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When I assign a Software Installation policy with an MSI file, does
the GPO check to see if that software is already installed then not
install it again or does the policy install the program every time
the computer restarts? Also, if it checks to see if the program is
installed, does that take a long time? I can't remember how it
functions.

The reason I ask is because I don't want the computers taking a long
time to start due to the GPO so if I need to, I can use the GPO in a
staging OU, then take it out of that OU once it's deployed because I
didn't include the dropout option. Or are there other ways around
this?



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