Okay.
So now what scenario I'm going to deal with is I get a patch of Acrobat reader from Adobe.
And I want to deploy that patch or that update to reader, to all my systems that have gotten Acrobat
Reader installed via group policy.
So the first thing I need to do is I need to patch my administrative install on my DFC share and that's
what this command is doing.
So I'm running message exec with that slash of or administrative install parameter.
I'm giving it the path to the MSI file up on my DFS share and then I'm giving it a slash P and the name
of the Microsoft Installer Patch file that I want to execute.
So I'm going to go ahead and run this command.
And what it is going to do is it is going to go ahead and walk me through patching this install.
And essentially it's going to apply that patch to the existing installation that I have up there, and
that will be the first part of what I need to do to make this to get this deployed to all my systems.
So once that's done.
I'm going to go ahead and go into my GPO where that package has been deployed, and I'm going to select
to redeploy the application.
And what this does is it sends a sets of flag in the GPO that triggers all of the clients that have
deployed this application to know that they have something else that they want to do with that application.
They want reinstall it.
And you'll see here that the warning is redeploying.
This application will reinstall the application everywhere.
It is always installed.
Do you want to continue?
So yes, I want to continue.
And now essentially what it's going to do is set that trigger for my entire environment.
Now what I'm going to do is come to my Windows seven client and go ahead and run update again just to
make sure that I get all of those updates from the policy.
And it's telling me that the group policy client side extension software installation needs to essentially
be processed.
Ad log on.
So I need to log off.
So I'm going to go ahead and do that.
And now I'm logging back onto my system.
And what you'll see here is that log on.
It's Reinstalling Adobe Reader.
So instead of waiting for me to do something, it's actually patching Adobe Reader at the log on cycle.
So essentially I'm getting the update before I even get to my desktop, which is a great thing.
It ensures that the user is always using that new version of Adobe Reader that they've been deployed,
and it makes sure that I get my patch as soon as I, as my administrator, has made it available to
me.
Now that that's completed, what I can do is I can go in here and fire up Adobe Reader.
And what you'll notice is if I go into the about Adobe Reader 11, I now have that 11.0.09 version,
which is the version that I had patched up to on my administrative share.
So group policy has done its job and manage that lifecycle of getting me that patch that my administrator
has delivered to me.