Re: Apply policies in order or as a prerequisite

Jordan-
I'm assuming you're using Software Installation policy? If so, then the only way you can guarantee install order is by putting each package in its own GPO and then ordering the GPOs linked to the container (site, domain or OU) such that the one you wish to install first (e.g. .Net Framework) has the *lowest* order of precedence (i.e. it runs first before the others), the next GPO then gets linked one higher up, etc.

Darren

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"Jordan" <none@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23Ne4tPdrHHA.1204@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have an application that needs to be installed in a certain order. It needs to install the .Net 2.0 runtime, then the application, then some add-on.

The app that requires the .Net 2.0 support will not install unless it sees .Net on the computer so it will retry until it can install, however the add-ons that are supposed to be installed last sometimes install first, second or third even. I have set which of these three policies should come first, but that does not seem to garrentee the order of install. What ends up happening is that the add-ons may get installed before the primary app and consequently they do not install the support for the primary app because it has not been detected.

Since the primary app has embeded in it the requirement for .Net support it will wait until .Net is installed before it installs. Is there a way I can force the add-on's policy to check for something prior to install?



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