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■ Prohibits customization of application settings, other than what is set
while creating a deployment.
There are three main steps to distributing this program through group policies.
■ Create an application distribution share point. The application distribution
share point is created using the deployment wizard. See
Create a Default
Deployment
on page 36 or Create a Custom Deployment to create a
deployment.
■ Assign the deployment to a computer. See Use Group Policies to Assign a
Deployment to Computers.
■ Verify the installation. Confirm that the program has been correctly
installed. See
Verify a Group Policy Deployment on page 49.
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
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