Re: Re-deploying an application to a single workstation

Hello Jay,

There is not currently a way to re-deploy software using only group policies
to one specific workstation, without creating a brand new policy and only
granting that workstation the ability to read the policy.

When someone uses the add/remove programs to remove an installed application
that was assigned by the GPO, the default behavior when the computer reboots
is to advertise that product, not reinstall it. This is by design and is a
function of the Application Deployment Client Side Extentions. When the
policy gets assigned, an AAS file is created on the server as well as the
workstation. This is what lets the machine know it's had the policy,
however, removing this AAS file on the workstation will not re-assign the
application.

Other products, such as SMS give a more more flexible way of deploying,
re-deploying and controlling applications.

Hope this helps.

--
Gary J. Griffin, MSCE/MCSE
Enterprise Platform Support
Directory Services, Microsoft Corporation




"Jay Scovill" <jscovill@accubid.com> wrote in message
news:Xns93D47957BE17Ejscovillaccubidcom@207.46.248.16...
> Scenario:
>
> I have an application that is deployed via group policy to several
> workstations (assigned to the computers).
>
> I have one or two workstations that I had to remove the software from
> manually using the Add/Remove Programs control panel.
>
> When I reboot the application isn't re-deployed through group policy.
>
> How can I do this for these individual workstations? I do not want to use
> the Redeploy option as it'll redeploy to all the workstations.
>
> I've hunted through the registry and found a key that looked like it would
> trigger the redeployment
> (HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/GroupPolicy/AppMgmt/{GUID}
> where GUID is the GUID of the applictaion. But this didn't do the trick.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks