2011

Use Group Policies to Assign a Deployment to
Computers
Perform the following procedures from a Windows XP workstation or a
Windows 2000 or 2003 server that has Group Policy Management Console
installed, and has access to the Active Directory server.
NOTE For more information about Group Policy Management, see
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/grouppolicy.
To assign a deployment to a computer
1 Start the Group Policy Management Console (gpmc.msc).
2 Right-click the organizational unit where you want to create the group
policy object. Then select Create and Link a GPO Here and name the
Group Policy.
3 Edit the policy.
4 In the Group Policy Object Editor dialog box, under Software Settings,
right-click Software Installation, and click New ➤ Package.
5 In the Open dialog box, navigate to the administrative image’s location
that you specified in the deployment wizard. Navigate to
AdminImage\<processor type>\<product name folder>. The processor type is
either x86 or x64, depending on the processor type for which you created
your deployment.
Examples
For x86 deployments:
\\server123\Deployment\AdminImage\x86\acad
For x64 deployments:
\\server123\Deployment\AdminImage\x64\acad
6 Select the Windows Installer Packages file called acad-<deployment
name>-for-GPO.msi. Click Open.
If the deployment was called “AutoCAD LT 2011 32 bit,” then the
deployment’s the MSI file would be acad-AutoCAD LT 2011 32
bit-for-GPO.msi.
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