Group Policy wierdness

[Guest]

I am trying to deploy Office 2003 to a handful of users. I created three new OUs within my existing structure, for the office deployment

When I published the Office install gpo to the ou within the admins ou and rebooted my pc the software loaded and all was well

when i published the software to the office ou within the users ou and added a user, the PC showed the "installing managed software ..." screen for a brief moment and went away, with no office installation taking place

I also tried assigning the package to users within the OU and get the same message and results.

Does anyone have any ideas on this?

 

[Chriss3]

Check the Application Event log for any relative events reported. There
should be one. Post it back.

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I am trying to deploy Office 2003 to a handful of users. I created three

new OUs within my existing structure, for the office deployment.

When I published the Office install gpo to the ou within the admins ou and

rebooted my pc the software loaded and all was well.

when i published the software to the office ou within the users ou and

added a user, the PC showed the "installing managed software ..." screen for
a brief moment and went away, with no office installation taking place.

 

[Chriss3]

A previous log entry with details should exist. Please post that one too.

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Event Type: Error
Event Source: Application Management
Event Category: None
Event ID: 108
Date: 4/20/2004
Time: 9:41:20 AM
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: JKRUEGER2K
Description:
Failed to apply changes to software installation settings. Software

changes could not be applied. A previous log entry with details should
exist. The error was The installation source for this product is not
available. Verify that the source exists and that you can access it. .

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

The user has admin priveleages on this machine and read/execute

permissions to the office MSI file. Also has read permissions to the folder
containing office...

 

[Guest]

Event Type: Erro
Event Source: Application Managemen
Event Category: Non
Event ID: 10
Date: 4/20/200
Time: 9:41:18 A
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTE
Computer: JKRUEGER2
Description
The install of application Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 from policy Office 2003 Install failed. The error was The installation source for this product is not available. Verify that the source exists and that you can access it.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp

 

[Chriss3]

Can you launch the MSI Package manually from the workstation by type the
UNC.

Like \\server\share\package.msi


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Christoffer Andersson

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Event Type: Error
Event Source: Application Management
Event Category: None
Event ID: 102
Date: 4/20/2004
Time: 9:41:18 AM
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: JKRUEGER2K
Description:
The install of application Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 from

policy Office 2003 Install failed. The error was The installation source
for this product is not available. Verify that the source exists and that
you can access it. .

 

[Guest]

Yes I can fire the MSI manually. It seems to have no problems when done that way.

 

[Chriss3]

Even logged in as a regular user? How you follow the Using Group Policy to
Deploy Office 2003, You may have a look at that paper.
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/office/2003/all/reskit/en-us/depc04.mspx

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Christoffer Andersson

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Yes I can fire the MSI manually. It seems to have no problems when done

that way.

 

[Guest]

Yer iv got the same problem not jst with office but with all msi files. This includes ms products, third party msi files and using the msi packager to create my own. iv been having to do manual installs until i can resolve this prob :-(
Does this affect other msi instalations at your site

Although when i deploy a gpo the computer is restarted it confirms the instalations but when i look in the start menu there is nothing added to the start menu is this the same for you

A collegue had mentioned sumthing about the achitecture server being out of syc with the domain controler, but im not personaly sure about that! Although the other 'weirdness that im having is that when i add a computer to the domain it automatically recieves my office distribution (msi file). This is even b4 it is added to the ou with the gpo for the distribution of office

Hope sum one has sum ideas :-

Server 2000 - Office XP 2002 - Windows 2000 Client
Attempted and failed Network Instalations by GPOs - Service Pack 2-4 MSIs - Video Wave MSIs - Norton Antivirus CorpE

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