Need help deploying software via Group Policy Management

We are trying to roll out the Office 2007 compatibility pack company
wide. We are using the group policy manager to do so, and are
assigning it by computer rather than user. On out test computers the
program is installing successfullly, but it looks like its doing it
even if it was manually installed beforehand. Thats not the big issue
though. The big problem is this-

Computer A and computer B both get tossed in the group and on their
next reboot they both install the desired software. Then on computer
A the program gets removed for some reason. Next time it is restarted
and logged into it does not reinstall the software. Why? It is still
in the same group as before. We thought maybe if we gave it a day it
would reinstall, but no such luck.

Thanks for the help.

Lanwench
Tue May 06 15:50:30 PDT 2008

kong222kong@yahoo.com wrote:
> We are trying to roll out the Office 2007 compatibility pack company
> wide. We are using the group policy manager to do so, and are
> assigning it by computer rather than user. On out test computers the
> program is installing successfullly, but it looks like its doing it
> even if it was manually installed beforehand. Thats not the big issue
> though. The big problem is this-
>
> Computer A and computer B both get tossed in the group and on their
> next reboot they both install the desired software. Then on computer
> A the program gets removed for some reason. Next time it is restarted
> and logged into it does not reinstall the software. Why? It is still
> in the same group as before. We thought maybe if we gave it a day it
> would reinstall, but no such luck.
>
> Thanks for the help.

Try posting in microsoft.public.group_policy for the most expert help.

Cliff
Wed May 07 11:47:33 PDT 2008

Deploying software via group policy assumes certain things (like only
administrators can add/remove software.) So if an admin removed software,
then group policy assumes there was a reason. It will not re-install. It
only tracks deployment.

In group policy, you can right-click on the package and choose "redeploy"
which basically resets that deployment check...and then it *will*
re-install. But again, if yu remove it again, it will stay removed..again.
Group policy is a very basic (but very functional) tool for deploying
software. If you need more robust auditing, tracking, or compliance
enforcement, you need another product. Microsoft's SCCM or SpecOps Deploy
would probably fit the bill.

-Cliff


<kong222kong@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> We are trying to roll out the Office 2007 compatibility pack company
> wide. We are using the group policy manager to do so, and are
> assigning it by computer rather than user. On out test computers the
> program is installing successfullly, but it looks like its doing it
> even if it was manually installed beforehand. Thats not the big issue
> though. The big problem is this-
>
> Computer A and computer B both get tossed in the group and on their
> next reboot they both install the desired software. Then on computer
> A the program gets removed for some reason. Next time it is restarted
> and logged into it does not reinstall the software. Why? It is still
> in the same group as before. We thought maybe if we gave it a day it
> would reinstall, but no such luck.
>
> Thanks for the help.