application deployment to Domain Controllers

[Jay]

I'm having trouble getting my domain controllers to accept
an assigned .msi
based application deployment. The policy is "assigned"
under the Software
installation under computer configuration in the policy.
I tried linking
the policy to the Domain Controllers OU. But, the
application wouldn't
deploy. Next, I linked the policy to the Domain. Still
couldn't deploy to
the DCs, but was able to deploy to member servers in that
domain.



I have a separate policy for the deployment (it's not part
of Default Domain
Controllers OU policy). The policy is first in the
execution list and it's
set to no override (which I don't believe makes a
difference when dealing
with application deployment). The software share is
located on a member
server in the same tree/domain and on the same subnet as
the DCs. The share
permissions are full control for the Everyone group. I
can access the share
for the target DCs.



So my question is, can I deploy applications via GPOs to
domain controllers?

 

[karen]

I am having similar problem where i applied GPO on the
computer level and nothing happens; except that i found it
was executed on the server itself.

But the deploymnet was not successful either, i saw this
from the log file:
Error 1722-Windows Installer Package problem.
Action: AdminRunSetupMin
Location: \\servername\update\update.exe
Command: /q /z /msi

What is this all about? how come it attempt to deploy on
the server rather than on the networked computers?