[windows2000] Re: GPO execution order
- From: "Sorin Srbu" <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 15:15:13 +0200
Jim Kenzig ThinHelp.com <> wrote on Wednesday, May 09, 2007 2:57 PM:
I think I already looked there and failed to find it, or anything even loosely
related to icons. Oh, well, I'll look again. Thx for the headsup!
> The icon is probably embedded in the bitmap section in the executable or a
> dll of the MSI. You could use resource hacker to edit it out of the actual
> executable or dll if you were diligent....
>
>
>
> On 5/9/07, Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Jim Kenzig ThinHelp.com <> wrote on Wednesday, May 09, 2007 2:03 PM:
>
> I tried, didn't work. This particular msi is tweaked from the
provider, and
> not following any standards, as standards go with msi-packages.
>
> Both the msi and script in the GPO are at the machine level.
>
>
> > Why don't you edit the MSI to remove the icon from there? Lots of
free
> > utilities out there that will let you edit MSI's. The other
question is
> > whether the script is at the machine level in the policy or the user
> level? > It depends on where you put it. JK
> >
> >
> > On 5/9/07, Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Suppose I have a GPO that I deploy an msi-package with, and I
also
> have a
> > startup-script in the same GPO. Which of them gets run first?
The
> msi or
> > the script?
> >
> > Reason for this question is that I'd like to remove the
> desktop-icon the
> > msi creates. So far no tweaking of the msi has helped, so I
revert
> to a
> > rather crude method of running a conditional test in the
> startup-script to
> > test for if the programname.lnk exists in
> > %allusersprofile%\Desktop-folder. If it does, it deletes it
> quietly. >
> > Obviously, if the script is run before the msi, there won't be
a
> > desktop-shortcut to remove and therefore the icon won't be
removed
> until
> > the next time the computer is rebooted. Thus the question of
> execution > order.
> >
> > TIA.
> >
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> >
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> >
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> >
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