Installing specific admin tool through GP

[Jay Scovill]

Here's a twist on a question that's been asked and answered here many
times.

I would like to deploy the ADU&C snap-in to a group of users via group
policy.

Obviously this means I can't use the ADDLOCAL switch to specficy a
particular tool.

I've tried modifying the adminpak.msi via transforms but I cannot get a
combination that works to just install that one snapin. ALL (DNS, etc) the
snapins end up getting installed. And that is only if I run it via the
commandline (msiexec /i adminpak.msi transforms=whatever.mst). This still
doesn't help me deploying it via group policy.

If I try to use that same tranform via group policy it just tells me "This
action is only valid for products that are currently installed."

Has anyone had any luck modifying the msi so specific tools can be deployed
to non-administrative users via group policy?

 

[Guest]

Hi,

Why not just install it to the Computers via Group Policy - software install
- assign and then just restrict users access to only the snapins they are
allowed to access via Group Policy? This is how I do it. There is Group
Policy settings that allow you to specify specifically what snapins users are
able to access. Therefore it doesn't matter if they are all installed if
they can't use them.

Cheers,
Lara