Assigning/Publishing Office 2003 in Active Directory

T

Tom Rogers

I am trying to deploy Office 2003 via Group Policies in Active Directory
(W2K Server environment). I created a test OU, moved my user account to it,
created a Group Policy, and assigned the Office 2003 MSI to the "Computer
Configuration - Software Settings" section in the new Group Policy. It is
supposed to be installed to the computer just before the logon dialog box
pops up, but nothing is happening. The OU and group policy has been
replicated across the domain and I can see my user name in the OU.

Any ideas why this is not installing?

TIA,

-Tom
 
P

ptwilliams

If you assign to computer, the computer account must be in the OU you link
it to, or you must apply the GPO to the computer through the Apply Policy
permission in the security tab of the policy.

Otherwise, assign the software through the user settings if you wish to
apply it to the user in the OU.

I believe you want to apply this to the computer. So the best thing to do
is move all computers you wish to do this to, into the OU that you've linked
the policy to. Otherwise, link the policy to the domain, add the computers
to a group, and follow these instructions:
-- http://www.msresource.net/content/view/15/47/


--

Paul Williams

http://www.msresource.net
http://forums.msresource.net


I am trying to deploy Office 2003 via Group Policies in Active Directory
(W2K Server environment). I created a test OU, moved my user account to it,
created a Group Policy, and assigned the Office 2003 MSI to the "Computer
Configuration - Software Settings" section in the new Group Policy. It is
supposed to be installed to the computer just before the logon dialog box
pops up, but nothing is happening. The OU and group policy has been
replicated across the domain and I can see my user name in the OU.

Any ideas why this is not installing?

TIA,

-Tom
 

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