Re: Policy to push ODBC.ini to users in a OU

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Michael,

Michael A. McKenney wrote:
I am installing a new domain, SAN, and Servers. Where can I find a document on how to push to the workstations all the SQL database ODBC information from a group policy? The ODBC connections will be new. I want them to replace the current ones. All the new servers are Windows 2003 R2 SP2.

You can use Group Policy Preference to push the settings. It has a special UI for doing that. All you need is install the Client Side Extension on the target servers (download free from Microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/DOWNLOADS/details.aspx?familyid=BFE775F9-5C34-44D0-8A94-44E47DB35ADD&displaylang=en) and a Windows Vista management station that has RSAT installed. From that machine, you can configure the ODBC settings.

Preferences are also capable of pushing .ini files to clients.

cheers,

Florian
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