Re: GPO Redeploy

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I suspect that what happened was that, when you disabled the link, but left the software installed, it broke the relationship between the GPO and the app. "Un-managed" means the app was not deployed via GP (or it no longer thought it was). This means that, by default a managed app will always uninstall and reinstall the same unmanaged app. Was the goal here to basically prevent any new installs during your DR test? If so, then what I would have done is changed the permissions on the MSI package so that new users or computers could no longer read it (e.g. you could have moved the MSI temporarily or just changed the perms on it). That would have prevented them from successfully executing the MSI but would not have effected currently installed systems.

Darren
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Darren Mar-Elia
MS-MVP-Windows Server--Group Policy
http://www.gpoguy.com -- The Windows Group Policy Information Hub:
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Group Policy Management solutions at http://www.sdmsoftware.com

"Michele Cardone" <mcardone@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OI7QJClEHHA.4132@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks Darren, I applied the ADM to a system and look through the logs, the only thing that stands out is:

Application PBApps from policy DEP_NY: PBApps6.60 was reset to reinstall because an unmanaged application with the same product identifier was already present on the machine.

Only problem is this makes very little sense to a few of us, unmanaged in what way?

The GPO in question wasn't changed, it was disabled, but left linked to the OU in question, after the DR test (actually a power outage of the entire building) it was re-enabled. The GPOs where not edit in anyway to change them.

Thanks again

"Darren Mar-Elia" <dmanonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:D43174D6-B4B6-4DCB-A901-F2EFCB17CA35@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
GP Software Installation will normally only reinstall if the package was removed or something was missing in the install (i.e. a key file was deleted). You could turn on software installation logging (see my gpolog.adm file at www.gpoguy.com/gpolog.htm) and see why it think it needs to reinstall.

Darren

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Darren Mar-Elia
MS-MVP-Windows Server--Group Policy
http://www.gpoguy.com -- The Windows Group Policy Information Hub:
FAQs, Training Videos, Whitepapers and Utilities for all things Group
Policy-related
Group Policy Management solutions at http://www.sdmsoftware.com

"Michele Cardone" <mcardone@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23dTkMVkEHHA.3524@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
For DR reasons we had disabled all our deployments via GPOs for a week.
When they where relinked users started to reinstall software they had
already installed. Has anyone seen this or have any ideas what I should
look into to stop this.

Thanks





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