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7.2 Publishing and Assigning Applications Using Group Policy

Marţi, 18 August 2009 16:04 Eugen Morar
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In this video i will show you how to publish and assign Applications Using Group Policy.

 
This exercise walks you through the steps you need to take to publish and assign applications. In this exercise, you will create and assign applications to specific Active Directory objects using Group Policy objects.
  1. Open the Active Directory Users And Computers tool from the Administrative Tools program group.
  2. Expand the domain and create a new top-level OU called Software.
  3. Within the Software OU, create a user named Jane User with a login name of juser (choose the defaults for all other options).
  4. Right-click the Software OU and select Properties.
  5. On the Software Properties dialog box, select the Group Policy tab and click New.
  6. For the name of the new GPO, type Software Deployment.
  7. To edit the Software Deployment GPO, click Edit. Expand the Computer Configuration > Software Settings object.
  8. Right-click the Software Installation item and select New > Package.
  9. The simulator automatically opens to the Office2003 folder.
  10. Select the appropriate MSI file depending on the version of Office2003 that you have. Office XP Professional is being used in this example, so you’ll see that the PRO11.MSI file is chosen. Click Open.
  11. In the Deploy Software dialog box, choose Advanced. Click OK to return to the Deploy Software dialog box.
  12. To examine the deployment options of this package, click the Deployment tab. Accept the default settings by clicking OK.
  13. Within the Group Policy Object Editor, expand the User Configuration > Software Settings object.
  14. Right-click the Software Installation item and select New > Package.
  15. The simulator automatically opens to the Office2003 folder.
  16. You’ll see that the PRO11.MSI file is chosen. Click Open.
  17. For the Software Deployment option, select Published in the Deploy Software dialog box and click OK. Click OK to close the Microsoft Office Pro Edition 2003 Properties window. Close the GPO Editor to return to Active Directory Users and Computers.