Changing Source Path in GPO

[David Wolff]

We have several applications assigned and published via
GPO to both machines and users. These application
currenlty reside on a a file share liek \\servername1
\appdist$\Application Named Folder. I need to change the
path that the GPO's use to \\servername2
\appdist$\Application Named Folder without policy being
reapplied. Is it possible to do this so that new machine
on the network will get the policy, and machines that
have the policy applied currently from the old path will
not have application reloaded. The appdist$ share on the
servers is exactly the same.

Thanks in advance for any help that people may give.

 

[Chriss3 [MVP]]

Each Group Policy is stored in Active Directory in the follow location

CN=<POLICY_GUID>,CN=Policies,CN=System,DC=<domain>,DC=<domain>

If the policy contains one or more packages they are stored as a
packageregistation class, they are located in the child container of the
policy, Machine or Users depending on if the package are assigned/published
at computer node or user node in the GPO.

CN=<User\Machine>,CN=<POLICY_GUID>,CN=Policies,CN=System,DC=<domain>,DC=<domain>

Now you can click the container ClassStore and the child container Packages,
the full DN is now supposed to be for
example:CN=Packages,CN=ClassStore,CN=<Machine/User>,CN=<POLICY_GUID>,CN=Policies,CN=System,DC=<domain>,DC=<domain>

In this location we have the PackageRegistation Object named as the GUID
such.
CN=<PACKAGE_GUID>,CN=Packages,CN=ClassStore,CN=Machine,CN=<POLICY_GUID>,CN=Policies,CN=System,DC=<domain>,DC=<domain>

Right click the PackageRegistation Object, Edit the MSIFileList Attribute.

Use ADSIEdit to modify this settings, ADSIEdit is a part of Windows Server
Support Tools found on Windows Server CD.

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Regards
Christoffer Andersson
Microsoft MVP - Directory Services

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[David Wolff]

Christopher thank you for the response. The process
worked almost perfectly. Policies are now pointed in the
correct place (my dfs root with a link to another share)
only now new installations of XP no longer receive my
assigned computer applications. The error that I receive
in event viewer is the typical error about permissions or
path not found. I have checked the NTFS permissions to
my folders and they have Domain Computers with Full
control. I have double-checked the paths and they are
all correct. Why do my policies no longer see the
application install paths?

-----Original Message-----
Each Group Policy is stored in Active Directory in the follow location

CN=<POLICY_GUID>,CN=Policies,CN=System,DC=<domain>,DC=<do main>

If the policy contains one or more packages they are stored as a
packageregistation class, they are located in the child container of the
policy, Machine or Users depending on if the package are assigned/published
at computer node or user node in the GPO.

CN=<User\Machine>,CN=<POLICY_GUID>,CN=Policies,CN=System,

Now you can click the container ClassStore and the child container Packages,
the full DN is now supposed to be for
example:CN=Packages,CN=ClassStore,CN=<Machine/User>,CN=<P