Re: Group Policy to control custom server application

You'll be hard-pressed to do this via GPO. There is no remote notification mechanism in Group Policy that you can rely on. I don't see how you can let the server app know that the client has logged on without some kind of event-based notification communication between client and server.

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"Jenbo" <eamonnjennings@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1168419357.516528.87120@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Herb, sorry for not getting back to you sooner, I was away with
work. To explain a bit further. The application that sits on the server
will be used to configure data collection forms that will be remotely
displayed on the users machine. So what I need to do is to have the
user login and then from there the server application needs to know
that the user has logged in, say from some sort of GPO, then based on a
schedule is being applied from the server application launch our data
collection forms on the client pc?

What is the best way to have this configured? Have reg changes on all
the client machines that will alert the GPO and this starts the work on
the server application?

I am normally a web developer and have not done much distributed
application stuff like this so I am trying to get my head round how
this would work as much as anything.

Regards
EJ

Herb Martin wrote:

"Jenbo" <eamonnjennings@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1168272420.868265.63470@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Is it possible to user group policy to control how a user will interact
> with a custom application that would sit on a network server.

"How"? Sure, if the application uses the registry to control this
you can add an ADM file to a GPO so that your GPO can make
those registry settings.

> Say the
> user logs on, and this means they hit the AD, how would you have let a
> central server based application know that this had happened, without
> installing software on the clients machines?

How would this application do it MANUALLY? We cannot possibly
tell you how YOUR CUSTOM application works, but if you will tell
us what you need to set (the type of settings) we can possibly show
you how to get a GPO to do those settings.

>Could you use some sort of
> group policy, any ideas on how you would do this are welcome.

Tell us how you do it manually or what you wish to set....


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