[gptalk] Re: auto install


No worries... Also if Eric follows what Darren states with verbose logging and 
also
tries out my suggestion im sure he will have his problems solved.







On Wed, September 20, 2006 12:31 pm, Jim Bangle said: 




Honestly? I
wouldn’t be looking for a better way. This is (I thought) exactly one of 
the dozen
things I tried when I couldn’t seem to get it working. I will have to dig 
back
into this for myself. 

I love the open
and timely assistance, everyone. Thanks! And, Eric, I’m sorry my follies 
may have
misled you for a moment there. I’m just excited to get the msi’s off
Netlogon and back into my normal scheme of storing my current versions of apps 
that I
want users to have. Thanks, again, Robert and others.






 

From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Mariani
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 6:57
PM
To:
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Subject: [gptalk] Re: auto install

 


In terms of security the Netlogon directory is
pretty wide open - and like Darren said - all the MSI's will replicate to your 
DC's

The way that i manage my GPO software deployments is like this ( i will use
Acrobat 7 Pro as a example)

1. Create a folder like \\\GPOManagedApps\"Acrobat"
2. Create
the MSI admin install to to the Acrobat folder
3. Create a Security group with the
computers/users I want to install is package to in the AD
4. Remove all (execept
admin) security from the Acrobat folder and add read/execute to the newly 
created
security group
5. Create a GPO to assign in the usual fashion although in the
security filtering add the security group just create above
6. Link the GPO the
required OU and voila! - gpupdate /force (if you want) and all should be well

hope this give you some pointers...

feel free to correct me if there is a
better way!

Rob



On Wed, September 20, 2006 11:36 am,
Jim Bangle said: 





I am soooooo
excited that you all are saying this. I had my msi’s on a share, all 
warm, fuzzy,
and secure, but I had the same exact symptom Eric is having. I was told by 
another admin
around here someplace that the msi’s had to be in Netlogon, and after 
simply
putting them in folders under Netlogon and reassigning them… voila! 
Everything
has worked since. BUT, I don’t want them where they are! So, now I have 
new
motivation to figure out how to create what I want. I thought I was working 
with a
system limitation.
Thanks for the feedback, all. AND, does anyone have any ideas as to
why moving my msi’s would have appeared to have been a solution?
-Jim


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On Behalf Of
Darren Mar-Elia
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 6:28
PM
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Re: auto
install



Agreed. Netlogon
is probably not the place for these--you don't necessarily want your packages
replicating to every DC.. A good DFS share somewhere on a file server is your 
best bet.
Eric I think your best bet again is to use the msi*.log files in 
c:\windows\temp to
troubleshoot why the per-computer assignment is not working.
Darren


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On Behalf Of
Robert Mariani
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 6:24
PM
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Re: auto
install

Although a valid
suggestion i would not be putting my msi files in the Netlogon directory -

I
believe best practice is to create a shared folder on the network and allow 
access via
security groups etc...

just my 2c

Rob


On Wed, September 20, 2006 11:08 am, Jim Bangle said: 
Eric, 

Are your msi files in Netlogon or a subfolder
thereof? They must be stored there, though the assign process will allow you to 
browse
to other locations and point to msi's elsewhere. I was caught by this early on. 


-----Original Message----- 
From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Tue Sep 19 15:51:18 2006 
Subject: [gptalk]
auto install 

I have tried to make group policy auto install programs. I can
make it do it via user config but I would like to it do it via computer config. 
I have
added the msi and they are set to assign. At startup the computer sais 
something briefly
about managed software but then does nothing. Anyhelp would be great. 







 


 

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