Instructions / white paper for No Touch deployment ?

[Tim L.]

Could someone please point me to instructions and/or detailed
discussions of No Touch deployment of WinForms in a LAN setting?

One of my questions is this: do the desktop machines have to be
configured to allow Winforms apps to be executed locally after
being downloaded from the LAN server? If so, do they have to be
configured for each application separately, or is it that once the
client PC hase been configured, new Winforms applications can be
installed on the LAN and downloaded without further changes on the
client PC?

Thanks
Tim

 

[Visual Barty]

Tim -

Here is a link on MSDN about the topic:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_vstechar
t/html/vbtchno-touchdeploymentinnetframework.asp

In my organization what we do is "sign" the assemblies and then configure
the localintranet zone in the ".NET Framework 1.1 Configuration" tool to
allow fulltrust to all code signed with our company signature. The security
policies in the tool can then be exported into "MSI" files and can be
deployed through group policy or login scripts to your clients, the windows
installer (msi) will actually setup their security properly so that they
will be able to give "fulltrust" to your signed assemblies.

Hope this helps.

Bart A. Robinson, MCP