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Confusion regarding Software Installs
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| Tech Ranger 2002-09-22, 5:01 pm |
| Although you use GPOs to assign software to computers, or to publish/assign programs to users, in actuality applications are installed only into computers. A package is assigned or published to John, and John has access to all workstations in his OU. If John chooses to install the package while seated at ws1, then leaves, will Ken find that app on ws1 when he logs on?
I have installed apps on a box, logged in as another user, and the app was not there, and not even listed in Add/Remove Programs in CP. My brain is a little twisted as to the installation of applications with respect to user accounts. I am not referring to NTFS permissions to access apps. | |
| CyberDude 2002-09-23, 4:13 am |
| If you assign/publish software to users, then it will only appy to those users that are in the gpo's security context. Also remember that the actual user objects must be in the same container as the software gpo. If you linked the gpo to the domain, then all users will be affected unless they are in a seperate container with the inheritence blocked.  | |
| Tech Ranger 2002-09-23, 5:15 am |
| I knew I was going to have trouble getting this question accross, I understand how GPOs work. What I am saying is that an application is given to a user, but you cannot install an app into a human being. Even though the app is being assigned to the user or published to the user, at the time the user causes its installation, it is actually installed into a C O M P U T E R.
Other users may have access to that computer. If other users use that computer, will they find that application there? If the other user doesn't have permission to use the app due to NTFS permission assignments that is one thing, my question asks whether the app will be perceptable in the form of icons, access via the command prompt, findable through search, etc. Do applications EXIST only within the context of users? My question was prompted by the fact that at work yesterday I downloaded from M$ an add-on feature to Outlook for backing up data. I did the download while functioning in my administrative account. When I switched to a user's account and opened Outlook, the feature was not there. I had to uninstall it and reinstall it using the other account. I have had similar experiences with apps. | |
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| CyberDude 2002-09-23, 9:19 am |
| Each user will have a seperate desktop. If all the users were in the same security context as the gpo, then the software will be available to them. |
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