Problems with active directory GPO deployment

[Scott Emick]

At the place I work I have had nothing but problems lately with installing a
CRM program I've writtem in VB.Net. It used to work smoothly deploying by
user but now it doesn't install on some pc's, other pc's get the install
path incorrect, while others have a valid install path but say the msi
cannot be found.

I know all these packages are being set up, but we have a know issue with
A/D that our network team is working on. Meanwhile I am stuck on how to
deploy my package which I need to update almost 1-2X a week to about 150
users.

Ideas, feedback would be appreciated. I do have the capability to run MSI's
on remote machine's (as admin), but I am not sure how to set up my MSI to
work well for silent install. I have ORCA installed. But I am not very
experienced with it.

Thanks

 

[Peter Proost]

Hi,

for the update you could work with a version number in the config file,
meaning when you change something in your program you increase the version
number and place your program on a server share. Then write a small program
to run on the client that compares the version number of their local copy of
the program to the one on the server share and if the number on the server
share is higher it copy's the new files. This is ho we do it at work and for
us it works ok

hth Peter

 

[Scott Emick]

Yes, I could try that I have thought about that using a stub to check
version and copy new files if necessary.

I will need to do some testing but that sounds like it might work for me.

Thanks Peter