Event ID 108

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I am having a problem when deploying applications via GPO in a Windows 2000
SP4 AD domain. The clients do not receive the package and I receive Event ID
108 "There is no software installation data object in the Active Directory".

I have followed the recommendations from
http://eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=108&eventno=1181&source=Application%20Management&phase=1,
as well as from other MSKB articles, but without success.

I have deleted/recreated the GPO, msi and mst packages, but the problem
persists.



This is a network I inherited and when looking around in AD I noticed that
the "Default Domain Policy" has either been deleted or renamed because it no
longer exists. The only policy bound to the domain is one called "All Users
and Workstations", which I do not recognize as a built-in policy. I have run
dcdiag /fix and netdiag /fix on all DCs and netdiag /fix on the test-deploy
workstations, but this has not solved the problem.



Everything else with the domain including authentication, name resolution,
etc.. works fine, but I think this error may be evidence of a larger problem
with AD.



We are planning on upgrading the domain to WS2k3 within the next few weeks.
Does anyone think that may fix the problem? If not, would it be wise to put
off the upgrade until this issue is resolved?





Thanks in advance for any help,



Dan DeStefano


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