Software deployment

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I struggling slighty with this.
Background
Multiple sites using server 2003, some in aisa, europe, etc.
Clients are all XP (or will be)

I want to setup an installation point, then use DFS to synch to servers at
the other offices so that all have a valid copy of the installation point.
(standard microsoft stuff), the setp a GPO for the software installs, then
users will pull the install from their local install point.

Unfortunately i'm being told that i'm not allowed to do this as our
networking/server team are concerned about synch traffic.
(yes i have explained how this can be scheduled, etc, etc)

The upshot is i currently cannot use it.

On our current W2K machines we already map (x to a local installation
point.
So i had a plan to make the software install GPO use the X drive.

Now to my problem...

Even if i have only the X drive mapped, the GPO seems to work out the UNC
and us it anyway.

Any ideas how i can get round this.

Thanks.

 

[Ken B]

I believe you would need to use the DFS UNC path in order to set up what
you'd like. It'll resolve the drive mapping for the event that the user
doesn't have the drive mapped, or that you are deploying to a machine, which
doesn't have drive mappings--it would need to find the install point via
\\server\share instead of just X:\blah

HTH

Ken