Implementing GPO (for a newb please)

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Good afternoon folks :)

My manager has tasked me with upgrading our users from Office 2003 to Office 2010. Easy enough, but not when you have to do it for 180+ people.

I have created a Custom.MSP file via setup.exe /admin and it works great. What I would like to do however is setup Group Policy so that when each user is ready for the install I just need to add them to an Office 2010 security group(?) and then get them to logout and login again for the install to proceed.

Is this possible? If so how?

I have never setup anything like this before so would be very grateful for any assistance at all, even some pointers on where to start etc.

I have trawled the internet and have found some useful documentation but it doesn't really answer my question :(

As I said any help would be greatly appreciated :)
 
Does the install run silently? If so you could create a small VBS script to call the installer. Test this works by running it manually first. Once your sure that works create a new OU with its own group policy and add your script as a logon script.

You should find that the script would run at logon and kick the installer off.

Not sure how well it will work with your setup but it is a possible way.

Alternatively do you have SCCM?
 
You wont be able to do the install on a user policy, it would have to be on machine policy.

Simple really, get a VBS or batch file to run "\\share\setup.exe /your.msp" or copy the install folder down and run "c:\office2k10\setup.exe" etc etc ... create a GPO and set attach said script as a machine logon script.

I started using this to deploy it over 1400 XP machines, but then we quickly got SCCM which does it automatically :)

If you cant figure it out after a few days, email in trust and i'll send you over the .vbs
 
Good morning,

Many thanks for getting back to me and apologies for the delay in getting back to you.

I am very green/noob when it comes to this, so what is SCCM? I probably already use it but just don't know what it's called.

When you guys say "silent" install I am assuming you mean that when the user logs in they will not see the install taking place, instead it will just take a little bit longer than normal for them to login due to the installation?

Terrier I may just need the .vbs file as I've never written one before. I will see what I can do on my own first though :)
 
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