Sorry for the late reply. This is what I thought. These updates are considered full versions in and of themselves, like Java, Adobe Reader. But if it was a patch or service pack, I would leave the original intact.
-- Mike Gill -----Original Message----- From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 9:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: What to do with old versions of apps using GPO to deploy We've done these as well. If you know all of your machines are installed, then you can right-click the old one, and choose to remove but not uninstall the software. The updated GPO will not show the update/upgrade option anymore. If you're not sure, set up a test ou and test gpo to see what it will do. -Bonnie -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 5:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: What to do with old versions of apps using GPO to deploy On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Mike Gill <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm wondering what to do with older versions of frequently updated apps that > I deploy with Group Policy. For example, I use the Frontmotion Firefox, > Flash, Java, and others. I have several FF's and Java's that when deployed > were set to upgrade the previous version. Is it safe to delete the older > versions? Is there a proper method involved? Do you mean, delete the old software items from the GPO, or delete the MSI from the install source share? The MSIs something was installed from are often needed during uninstall/upgrade, so if you have computers that might not have done their upgrade yet, I'd keep the install kits around until it's all done. Then it's okay to delete. If you delete the old software items from the GPO... I think that'll be okay. The MSI file itself contains the IDs needed to upgrade older versions. I think the GPO upgrade stuff is just used to tell the GP subsystem not to bother trying to install old versions. Same rule about clients not updated yet applies, though. Otherwise, GP will see it as the GPO falling out of scope, which (depending on your config) may trigger an uninstall. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
