A few questions about software installation via GPO

[Robert Gordon]

We have a custom app that I need to push out regularly to about 200 nodes in
a compute farm. The app is a .Net app, and it's wrapped in a .MSI.

My questions are:

1) Where would I find implicit instructions online, for setting up a GPO
for silently pushing my app to all the nodes the GPO gets applied to?
2) Can I set up the install through GPO so that it launches at a given
internal, without the node it's being installed on having to actually log
onto the domain (i.e. silently at any given time)?
3) Checking to see what version of the app is already installed on any
given node, and if it is, stopping it so that an upgraded version can be
installed over it, or else simply skipping this step if the version
installed IS the latest version?

 

[Ming Chen \(MSFT\)]

Robert,



Without any add-on:



1. You can set GP to install MSI to machine object.

- 302430 HOW TO: Assign Software to a Specific Group By Using a Group
Policy
- - http://support.microsoft.com/?id=302430

2. You will need to have the machine to be able to read GPO in order to
apply the software installation.

3. You can remove the existing GPO and deploy a new GPO containing the new
software package.



To get the effect you are looking for (version checking & not being part of
the domain etc), SMS will be a better tool for it.



Sincerely,
Ming Chen, MCSE, MCSA, MCDBA, CNE
Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security

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