Installing software for non admin users

anything I don't mind · 17 Nov 2011 at 18:15

On a domain if you have to install client software that requires a bat file to install due to its complexity. What is the best method of installing the software via scripts. The only option I can think of is to give all the users temporary administrator rights during the installation. Which of course is not ideal.

anything I don't mind · 17 Nov 2011 at 19:47

So you would have an administrator password in plain text in a bat file instead of giving all users domain admins. The other alternative is going to each pc individually and installing it manually as admin. One other one i thought of was setting domain admin rights during the day and then sending an email to everyone before and telling them that they will have a scheduled restart and then set admin rights and at the end of the script remove them.

anything I don't mind · 17 Nov 2011 at 20:05

I tried to run it as a start up script on a gpo with a computer ou and it did not work.

When i tried to add a domain user as a local admin on a pc and run the bat file came up with access denied messages. I am not sure if i could make a msi out of that.

anything I don't mind · 17 Nov 2011 at 20:15

ok it is windream, http://www.windream.com/produkte/sbe/windream-50.html