Hello All --

I am a newbie to GPO - so this question may be a bit elementary -

Background: Our domain structure (Win2k3) is flat as can be - up until this project, we had not created any OU's. I have since created some OU's for our workstations (ou's - servers, desktops, laptops)

I have an msi package that I would like to deploy to these machines (all of which are in the OU's listed above, which are sub-ou's of a parent ou - Workstations)

I added a dozen desktops to the desktops OU and created a policy to deploy my msi file - this worked beautifully. I had a problem with the msi file and had to remove it from these machines. After running various tests on some machines, I feel I now have a working copy of the msi file.

My question is this: During my testing phases with the MSI file, I installed it manually on a handful of machines. If I create the GPO to install this MSI file, and put a machine that already has it installed inside the OU that the GPO is applied to - will the GPO know this machine already has the application installed or will it try to install it again?

Thanks in advance

Hope this isnt too confusing

sb