Re: Need ideas deploying to 50 machines
- From: "Robert Moir" <robspamtrap+msnews@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:17:06 -0000
Doug wrote:
>> If these will be connected to a Windows server running active
>> directory, and
>> all you're bothered about is deploying the apps, then why not read
>> into Active Directory package deployment via MSIs and let the
>> network servers do your thinking for you?
>
> That's why I'm considering doing it with PathLink. For one, I'm not
> all that up-to-speed on Group Policy but my experience has been that
> it's difficult to test, and all our users are in the same OU so I
> don't get any granularity. Plus PatchLink is pretty good at keeping
> an inventory of who has what.
Well whatever works for you. Actually I find Group Policies to be very easy,
not to mention already paid for in the price of the server.
You can assign packages to a user or group of users, rather than just a
machine, using group policies and you can also use ACLs to control who has
the policy applied to them even within a single OU.
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