Deploying Applications Through Group Policy

You can make applications available to users over the network through Group Policy. When you use Group Policy to deploy applications, administrators have two distribution options.

  • The first option is to assign the application to users or computers. When an application is assigned to a computer, it is completely installed the next time the computer is restarted and becomes available to all users of that computer the next time they log on. When an application is assigned to a user, it is completely installed the next time the user logs on to the network. An assigned application can also be configured for install-on-first-use. In this configuration, the application is made available through shortcuts on ...

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