Ah..."the business". It's a pretty wild circle
huh?
- IT doesn't want apps that aren't written properly,
but...
- "the business" doesn't care and wants it anyway,
so...
- IT can't put the kind of pressure they would like upon the company
developing the bad apps, so...
- bad company makes their money anyway, and...
- "business" is happy, because...
- IT "made it work"
So we all three [groups] still have jobs.
Hmm...
By the way...love the "smoldering pile of crap" adjective.
Beautiful!
-DaveC
Reuters America
Dave-
Hallelujah! I'm with you here. Can we start some kind
of movement? I'm thinking a web site like dontwritestupidwindowsapps.org?
Maybe hold some rallies outside of offending software company's headquarters
where we burn their shrinkwrap? I'm serious. This used to bug the holy heck
out of me when I lived in the IT world. But of course "the business" would
always say, "well we absolutely must have this huge smoldering pile of crap
application and there is only one vendor in Upper East Moldoria that
provides it so we don't care if its not 'Windows compliant'."
Darren "Logo or Die" Mar-Elia
You guys gave some great suggestions to this tough question, and made
some good points. For what it's worth, mine is a bit less realistic
- STOP purchasing software from a company that can't get this right
(regardless of excuse or reason).
Perhaps the same can be said of applications that use NetBIOS
calls. If we ever really want to get that out of the Windows world (do
we?), then the application providers need to STOP using
it.
If we don't buy it, they can't make it...right? Sorry if this
is a bit simplistic!
-DaveC
Reuters America
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Subject: [ActiveDir] Using GPO to
install an MSI package
Okay, our environment is that all our clients
are running Windows XP SP2, and our servers are Windows 2003. The
situation is that our Accounting department uses Quickbooks, and about 70 of
our employees need to use an application that comes with Quickbooks called
"QB Timer". It's free for use for our employees and it integrates with
Quickbooks without requiring a Quickbooks install on each machine.
Now, the quandry: according to Intuit/Quickbooks, the program requires
at least Power User permissions to install and run. Neither I, nor our
CIO are willing to give local Power User permissions for these users, as
that opens things up to too many potential problems, but our CFO and COO are
REQUIRING the use of this application, or a similar one that integrates with
Quickbooks. Now, the QBTimer is free, which is good, so that's the
*preferred* app to use. It comes as an exe with a few other files, so
I used WinInstall LE 2003 on a clean XP SP2 machine to package it into an
MSI file. That worked well, and I can install it/assign
it through GPO - even if the user doesn't have local Power User
privs. However, true to form with Intuit products, it won't run if the
logged on user doesn't have local admin or PU privs. If I grant PU
privs to the user, it runs fine. I feel like I am --> <-- this
close to getting this done, but I ran out of ideas to get this to
work. I tried looking at the reg file that was made when I ran
WinInstall and gave the users full rights to the specific areas in the
registry to see if that did anything; which it didn't.
Does anyone else have any siggestions, or am I
stuck with Intuit's "users must have >= Power User privs" to run that
app?
ANY help or suggestions are GREATLY
appreciated!
--Jason
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