[gptalk] Re: redeploy assigned software application to selected computers only

  • From: "Darren Mar-Elia" <darren@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 09:34:09 -0700

Might not want to delete the whole history key, since that will probably
cause all GPOs to re-process, but I like the idea of trying to just delete
the relevant Appmgmt key. That would be interesting to test. 
 
 

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From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Delaney, Doug
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 9:32 AM
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Re: redeploy assigned software application to selected
computers only


Matt,
 
You could also delete the
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\windows\CurrentVersion\Group
Policy\AppMgmt\{ApplicationSpecificGUID} and the History key (entirely).
This will re-install the application, but there is no good way to do it from
a GPO itself.
 

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From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 12:26 PM
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Re: redeploy assigned software application to selected
computers only


Matt-
That's somewhat difficult. There's no easy way to target a Re-deploy action
on machines that have received GP-based installations. And re-deploy
actually only does a repair operation, not a full re-install. So, the
easiest way to do this might be to do a startup script that uses an msiexec
command to perform the reinstall on the particular computers in question.
Msiexec command line options are described at
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314881/en-us
 
Darren

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From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Matt Diglio
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 9:11 AM
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] redeploy assigned software application to selected
computers only



Hello,

 

I have a GPO that deploys a few assigned applications through the software
installation feature.

These software packages are assigned to the computer

I would like to force a re-install but only on a select few computers.

 

How can I do this?

Thank you for any help you can give me,

 

Matt 

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