Excellent ideas guys, thanks. I was sure the error message was telling the truth--the MSI couldn't be deployed to users--but was hoping for a potential workaround. I wasn't even aware of the ORCA tool so I can't profess to being comfortable editing MSIs but I can work with this in our development domain and see what happens. I'll report back...
Thanks again, Jason Nelson, Jamie R Contr 72 CS/SCBNF wrote, on 3/19/2007 11:07 AM:
Darren, Even setting the ALLUSERS property in this case would not help. I just took a look at it in Orca and there is a custom action called "BlockOnUserInstall" that appears to be the culprit. You could remove that custom action but there is no telling if it will install correctly. Definitely worth a try though. //signed// Jamie R Nelson Systems Engineer Ingenium Corporation 72 CS/SCBNF 405.739.2811 (DSN 339) -----Original Message----- From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 11:59 AM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] Re: Deploy GPMC.msi via GPSI user publishing If you're comfortable editing MSI files using a tool like ORCA (from the MSI SDK) then I suspect you might be able to tweak the ALLUSERS property on the MSI package to allow a per-user install. I don't see any particular reason why it would not be supported. Darren -----Original Message----- From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nelson, Jamie R Contr 72 CS/SCBNF Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 9:46 AM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] Re: Deploy GPMC.msi via GPSI user publishing Your answer is in the error message. "It must be installed per-machine" When you publish to a user it is trying to run the installation as "per-user" which is apparently not allowed for that application. //signed// Jamie R Nelson Systems Engineer Ingenium Corporation 72 CS/SCBNF 405.739.2811 (DSN 339) -----Original Message----- From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jason B. Halladay Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 11:35 AM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] Deploy GPMC.msi via GPSI user publishing Hello all,I'm afraid I may know the answer already as a result of my testing but has anyone successfully used GPSI to deploy the GMPC.msi (SP-1) to users? It seems to assign to computers nicely but when using a GPO to publish to users, I receive an error message when trying to install the software. "Microsoft Group Policy Mangement Console with SP1 must be installed per-machine by a user with administrative privileges on this machine". I do log in with a domain account with admin. privileges whenattempting to install the gpmc. Unfortunately, a policy assigning this package to computers won't work in our environment. I suppose I'll juststick with a URL to the Microsoft gpmc.msi download on an internal webpage but thought I'd run this past all the experts here first!Thanks, Jason *********************** You can unsubscribe from gptalk by sending email to gptalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the freelists.org Web interface. Archives for the list are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/gptalk/ ************************ *********************** You can unsubscribe from gptalk by sending email to gptalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the freelists.org Web interface. Archives for the list are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/gptalk/ ************************ *********************** You can unsubscribe from gptalk by sending email to gptalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the freelists.org Web interface. Archives for the list are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/gptalk/ ************************ *********************** You can unsubscribe from gptalk by sending email to gptalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the freelists.org Web interface. Archives for the list are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/gptalk/ ************************
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