Use Group Policy to assign computer startup scripts for 2007 Office deployment

I'm trying to deploy Microsoft Office 2007 using group policy. I found this
TechNet article to accomplish it using startup scripts, since the
ProPlusWW.msi doesn't work.

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/a57c8446-b959-4025-a866-b690ddcaa66d1033.mspx?pf=true

I set GPO in an OU I created for the deployment and placed several XP
machines under it. It is supposed to run the batch file listed in the
article from Computer Configuration Windows Settings Scripts Shutdown. The
batch file essentially runs the setup.exe with the xml modifier and outputs
a text log.

The batch file performs the install flawlessly when run interactively on the
XP machines. I'm using virtual machines so I can revert back at will, from
snapshots.

For some reason GP is not updating the machines local policy with the
setting I have set on the OU, even if I run gpupdate on them.

Why isn't GP being pushed down?

I decided to make the changes locally that GP is supposed to be pushing, to
test if the script would run at shutdown and perform the install. During
shutdown I know the batch file is being accessed but it ends in a couple
seconds without doing anything, again if I run it interactively it works
fine.

Has anybody been successful following this procedure to deploy Office 2007?

Does anyone have another method deploy Office 2007 using GP?


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