Good point. In that kind of situation, I would generally do one of the following: 1) dump a flag file on the system (after the 1st execution) so that script only runs if the file doesn't exist. 2) In the script logic, programmatically verify (through WMI) whether or not IE7 is installed 3) Use a WMI filter on the GPO so that only systems with IE6 process the GPO 2 or 3 would be the best option for pushing out IE7. Regards, Jamie Nelson -----Original Message----- From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Justin Salandra Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 7:47 AM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] Re: Pushing out IE7 by GPO If you deploy via script, what is to prevent the system from continually installing the program on every boot every time? Justin A. Salandra Director of Technology Citadel Perimeter 62 William Street New York, NY 10005 Office 212.931.8830 x209 Cell 917.455.0110 jsalandra@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nelson, Jamie R Contr 72 CS/SCBAF Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 6:36 PM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] Re: Pushing out IE7 by GPO If you already have it setup in your environment, WSUS would be a much better method of doing this. If Group Policy is a must, you could use a zap file, but this would only work if you wanted to publish the application to users...you wouldn't be able to assign it at startup and your users would have to be local administrators for the installation to succeed. How to publish non-MSI programs with .zap files -> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/231747 Your only other option is to launch it using a Group Policy startup script. However, keep in mind that scripts policy processing will time out after 10 minutes (by default) unless you bump it up a little (Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/System/Scripts -> Maximum wait time for Group Policy scripts). 10 minutes might not be enough time for slower systems to do the install, so I would bump it to at least 15 if you decide to do this. In your script (.bat or .vbs), launch the IE7 setup using the following parameters and it should go silently with a forced reboot after installation completes. Make sure the "Domain Computers" group has a minimum of Read/Execute permissions on the network share and folder. \\server\share\IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe /quiet /update-no /forcerestart Hope this helps. Regards, Jamie Nelson -----Original Message----- From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Piet Slaghekke Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 5:12 PM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] Pushing out IE7 by GPO Hi there, I have searched and searched but I cannot find a good way to push out IE7 by GPO. Can anyone give me any ideas? It would seem that MS would create an MSI package for this, but no luck. Piet *********************** 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/ ************************