It is actually a per-user assignment in a Windows 2003 domain. So, I have configured it to install at log on as you had mentioned Darren.
What this particular application does is install a button on the toolbar of Outlook to access a form that has been published in our Exchange environment. Fairly simple thing, but unfortunately due to the nature there is no file extension associated with the installer, only few .dlls and registry keys that create a button. As I had said, it does install successfully in the test environment with the exact same settings. For some reason, but for some reason it has been giving me a HECK of a lot of grief in the production environment and unfortuantely that's what matters :-( What I may end up doing is publishing the application with "Basic" UI (this has been tested succesfully in production env.) and instructing users to open their control panel and click "Add". I have taken this approach with other applications by restricting Control Panel to only have access to A/R Programs and only have the Add New Programs tab available restricted to Add Programs from your Network. But for some reason the boss frowns on it although the only user interaction is physically clicking the "Add" button and closing A/R Programs & Control Panel afterwards (I think a monkey could do that???). I appreciate the advise though. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 3:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Assigned software deployment via GPO Michael- Are you doing per-user assignment or per-machine? In general, if you do a per-user assignment, the application is only "advertised" for install on first use at logon, rather than fully installed. The exception to this is that software installation policy in W2K3 supports a new option on user assignment called "install this application at logon" that will do a full install. That's probably the reason that the event log is saying that the app was successfully installed--it probably was! The way you can confirm this is if this app you've advertised supports any kind of file association or if it puts icons in the Start Menu, you should see those showing up. That is, if you were to open a file or click a shortcut that was associated to this advertised app, that would kick off the application installation at that time. Darren -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Wassell Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 12:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Assigned software deployment via GPO Yes actually I was. I have done other tests using different machines, but that particular test I used the same machine for. I will try it using a different machine. I did force the GPO to uninstall the assigned application from the previous GPO (eventhough it hadn't actually been installed, but shown in the event log), but it is still worth a try I suppose. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 3:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Assigned software deployment via GPO Are you testing it on the same PC in the Production OU that you used in the Test OU? -Peter "Michael Wassell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> om> cc: Sent by: Subject: [ActiveDir] Assigned software deployment via GPO [EMAIL PROTECTED] tivedir.org 04/06/2004 02:55 PM Please respond to ActiveDir Okay guys, I am at my wit's end here.... I've been trying to distribute an .MSI package via GPO as an Assigned application to an OU in AD. Test environment: Worked perfectly fine in my test environment, I copied the install package to a share on the server, set permissions, assigned the application to a GPO and that was it. Worked perfectly ever since. Production environment: Exact replica of permissions, shared folder names, the file is the same, the usernames/security groups are different and the name/properties of the GPO used to deploy the application are different. Will not work for the life of me. Thinking that it might be a problem with the GPO I created a test OU and blocked inheritance (without linking any other GPO's), test user account, test GPO and assigned the application in the new GPO, redeployed the application. Still no go. The deployment works fine if the application is published, but my boss wants 0 user interaction (I.E. install at logon). The weirdest thing is that the event viewer shows that the application is installed successfully, but it isnt actually installed anywhere (no registry keys, or program files etc.). Which makes no sense because it works perfectly in the test environment. This should be something that is very simple but it has been the biggest pain in the NECK!!! (for lack of a better term) Anyone with any idea's, I'm ALL ears :-) List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
