[gptalk] Re: New Dells Not Installing Software

Actually you do not have to enter install mode for a Terminal Server for 
computer based Windows Installer installations (it is handled automatically by 
Windows Installer), and I suppose this is computer based installations since 
Steve mention that the problem is during boot. Installing using GPSI to deploy 
per-computer assigned software is fully supported and I would say that this 
problem really is connected to the NICs and a timing problem with the drivers 
and foreground Group Policy processing.

Also I would say that using automated installations and policies is a great for 
Terminal Server as long as the deployment is properly tested first, something 
that obviously is true even for deployments to other systems as well :). Group 
Policy is designed to make it possible to set up the configuration once and 
then have these settings apply without risk of human errors in the processes, 
and this is equally true for Terminal Servers as for other systems. Using GPSI 
and other GP settings makes installation of new servers an pretty easy task 
instead of putting the administrator in a situation where he or she need to 
make sure that every server is set up the exact way as the previous servers. 
This is of course also a great thing if the server need to be replaced.

And to be honest, I personally believe that the product teams in Redmond comes 
up with great stuff pretty often, but blocking GPSI from doing per computer 
installations on Terminal Server would not have been a great feature if you ask 
me ;)

Best,
Thorbjörn Sjövold
Special Operations Software
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-----Original Message-----
From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Omar Droubi
Sent: den 10 maj 2007 22:09
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Re: New Dells Not Installing Software

Steve,

I wouldn't recommend doing any automatic install of software on terminal
servers- especially if the terminal server stability is important to
your organization.

Terminal servers requires that the installation mode is changed from
install to execute before you install any software on those systems-
that will happen automatically if you initiate the software installation
from the add/remove programs applet or if you go to the cmd prompt and
type change user install |execute | query.

Maybe the developers @ Microsoft finally thought of something worthwhile
and this is getting blocked because it is a terminal server.

My 2 cents.

Omar

-----Original Message-----
From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Steve Evans
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 9:49 AM
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] New Dells Not Installing Software

I'm trying to push software to our terminal servers via GPO.  Our latest
batch of Dell's are failing at this.  At bottom we get 1053 errors from
Userenv.

Windows cannot determine the user or computer name. (The specified
domain
either does not exist or could not be contacted. ). Group Policy
processing
aborted.

The computer and user policies are taking effect though, and refresh
properly after boot-up and/or logon.  It's only during the boot up
process
that we're unable to access GPO's.

We've run into this before but updating the NIC drivers fixed it.  I've
done
the same on these (Dell 2950's Broadcomm NetXtreme II) but no improved
results.

Any ideas on what could be going on?


Steve Evans




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