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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