[windows2000] Re: GPO execution order
- From: "M" <mathras@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 20:12:14 +0100
Whoops i should have said "The creation of the icon should be within the
MSI"
----- Original Message -----
From: "M" <mathras@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 7:52 PM
Subject: [windows2000] Re: GPO execution order
> Hi,
>
> The creation of the MSi should be within the MSi file. You should be able
to
> delete or alter the icon creation behaviour using ORCA (or Wise /
> Installshield if you use it.)
>
> If you open the MSi file, what entries do you have in the shortcut table
> (towards the bottom on the left hand side of the opened MSI) ?
>
> matt
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sorin Srbu" <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 2:15 PM
> Subject: [windows2000] Re: GPO execution order
>
>
> > 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.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > >
> > > > BW,
> > > >
> > > > Sorin
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