Thanks for the tips and ideas. I'll let y'all know what I find out. On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 10:42 PM, Joseph L. Casale < [email protected]> wrote:
> Right, > Looks like the MSI was authored per user with advertised shortcuts. > > You can see this and all other properties which control this by opening it > in Orca. > > Possibly you can generate a transform and alter it at GPO install time > unless they have done something intentional. > > > > Either way, Orca will more than likely shed the light on it… > > > > jlc > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Richard Stovall > *Sent:* Monday, June 13, 2016 6:42 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [NTSysADM] GPO software installation > > > > Seeing that no one uses SEP for application whitelisting (and I'm > beginning to understand why...), let's move on to another topic. One more > directly related to this list's charter. > > > > I'm working with a client who has deployed software via GPO for a long > time. We have one package we're trying to work with that behaves for all > the world like it was deployed via assignment to users. Uninstall the > beast and it still has a start menu icon which, if you click it, it reaches > out to the network installation point and puts it back on. This is classic > deployment via GPO assignment to users, right? > > > > Trouble is, there is no GPO that currently assigns this software to > users. It may be that the offending GPO was deleted some time ago and did > not have the "Uninstall this application when it falls out of the scope of > management" flag set. Does this sound plausible? If so, how do we > eliminate the offending start menu shortcut? I can always remove the > network installation point, but I'd like to clean it up 100% properly. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Thanks, > > Richard S >

