9-3: Software Management with Group Policy
Solution overview
Type of solution | Guidance |
Features and tools | Group Policy Software Installation, Active Directory Groups |
Solution summary | Deploy applications using Group Policy Software Installation. |
Benefits | Reasonably robust software management with a native Windows technology |
Introduction
Windows Group Policy Software Installation (GPSI) allows you to deploy software that is installed using Windows Installer files (.msi files). This is a perfectly reasonable way to deploy many applications, and it is in use at a number of enterprises. In this solution, I discuss the best practices for managing GPSI, including the use of application groups to control the scope of software deployment. We will use the deployment ...
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