Okay.
Now, what I want to do is take you kind of start to finish through a package deployment.
So what we've got here is a DFC share.
So this is a domain based DFC share.
You see my domain name packages, installers, and then a subdirectory called Adobe Reader.
Now what I'm going to do, I have the Adobe Acrobat MSI, and I'm going to go ahead and do an administrative
install.
Remember, I talked about that of the Acharya Dot MSI.
So I've got this command MSI exec, which is the MSI or Windows Installer executable slash.
With the package path to the actual MCI.
Now if I execute that, it looks like it's going to install Acrobat.
But what you're going to notice is it says here it's going to create a server image of Adobe Acrobat
Reader at the specified network location.
So I'm going to go ahead and click next and then I'm going to give it this network location of my DFS
share.
And I'm going to have the administrative install occur into this share and you'll notice that it's copying
a bunch of files in the background over to that share and getting Adobe all set up to go.
And it doesn't take very long to do that.
It's going to get that set up there in just a few seconds.
And when it's all complete.
I now have an administrative install on this DFC share.
And remember I did that because I want to be able to patch Adobe Reader with subsequent patches as they
come up.
So I'm going to go ahead and now go back to my GPO, right click under user configuration software installation.
New Package.
And what I'm going to do.
I'm not going to point to the local seed drive where this package actually resides.
I'm going to point to the DFS share because what I want, this is the path that the clients are going
to see when they install this package.
So they need to be able to see the DFC share.
So I'm going to go ahead and dig into that Adobe Reader and select the MSI File.
And now I get the options that you saw in my previous discussion.
I can choose deployment.
I'm going to say published auto install.
I'll say uninstall when the GPL falls out of scope.
I'll leave the user interface as maximum because I don't mind them doing a per user install.
No upgrades.
Four categories.
I am going to choose the utilities category and I don't have any transforms and I'm just going to leave
the security at the default.
So now I've got my package that's deployed.
Now I'm going to go back to PMC and I'm going to link this to my sales users OYU.
So I've got my software deployment software installation policy now linked to my users.
Oh you now what I'm going to do is come over to my windows client.
And the first thing I want to do is actually do a GP update force.
Now I'm logged in as a user who's in that sales user view.
The reason I want to do a GP update force is software installation, if you remember from a previous
module, is one of those client side extensions that requires a foreground synchronous refresh in order
to take effect.
Now, by default, if I were just to log off and log back in, that wouldn't be sufficient to trigger
that foreground synchronous refresh.
I'd have to log in a second time.
What this update force command is doing for me is it's going out and getting the fact that I have that
new software deployment policy assigned to me or published to me, and it's setting a flag on this system
that tells it that the next log on should be synchronous.
That will allow me to get that package on the next log on.
And you'll notice here that it's detected that certain user policies are enabled that can only run during
log on.
That would be my software deployment.
So I'm going to go ahead and log off.
And now I'm logged back into my client system and I should have now gotten the application package that
I had just deployed.
So let me go to add remove programs.
Remember, this is a published application.
And if I go to this option called install a program from the network, there you see my Adobe Reader
package that's been deployed.
So now I have this available to me as a user if I wanted to install it from here.
So now what I'm going to do now that I had this and add remove programs is I'm going to go ahead and
click install.
And it's going to go ahead and get that package.
Give me the options.
I can install updates automatically.
Or if this had been a basic UI, I might not have seen all these options.
It might have just run through the installation without giving me any choices.
But I chose to make it a maximum UI.
So I'm getting all these options.
And I'm going to see that once I get Adobe Reader installed, I'm now managed I'm a managed system as
far as that group policy deployment is concerned.
So as soon as this completes, what I will be able to do is click on, you know, any sort of PDF document
that I have or any other file that is launched by this particular application, and I'll be able to
get access to the app.
And that's all delivered via group policy.
So it's been it's given me the capability of getting an application down to the user or in this case,
published to the user in a fairly quick manner.
And the app is now there and available for me to use.
So if I go in under documents and I double click this, then that association has happened between the
new app that I just installed and my PDF file, and I can go ahead and open it.