Software Deployment to Machines
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Date: 05/26/04
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Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 04:44:05 -0700
Have you given the workstations read permissions on the
share?
I've got Office installing on boot up on the workstations
and without giving the workstations read access it will
fail
Ollie
>-----Original Message-----
>Let me start out by saying this worked under W2K server.
>I'm trying to deploy Office to a select number of
>computers running XP/W2K Wkstn/2003 Server. Following
the
>best practices protocol:
>I created a global security group in the computers
>container and placed the above mentioned machines into
the
>list of members.
>I created a domain local security group and made the
above
>mentioned global group a member of.
>I created a shared directory to place the MSI package
into
>and set the permisions on the share to read only for
>authenticated users nothing was denied.
>I went into gpmc and created a new GP and edited it from
>there.
>Under computer configuration-software setting I created a
>new package which I selected as advanced assigned. This
>was done so that I could apply a MST under the
>modifications tab.
>Back in gpmc I removed the authenticated users from the
>security filtering area and added the domain local
>security group I created above.
>I then linked the GP at the domain level.
>I then ran gpupdate /force on the same server that all of
>the other tasks above was run on and if everything was
>going to function correctly I would be greeted with a
>prompt that says a re-boot would be required in order to
>install the software. That was not the case.
>Obviously I missed something but I don't see where.
After
>reading several posts I was asking myself that maybe the
>permissions on the share should be set to everyone read
>because when the computer side GP is applied the machine
>doesn't have an authenticated user attached to it. I
have
>tried numerous combinations over the past week and have
>not gotten the modeling section to agree with what
>actually happens on the client.
>.
>
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