Deploy an Application using Group Policy to Windows 7 Machines

[durango]

Hello there,

We plan to deploy an application using group policy to the Windows 7 machines in our environment. The application has an MSI file and we have created a MST for custom selections.

Is there a way to configure the GPO so that the policy checks and deploys the application only to Windows 7 machines as we also have Windows XP machines in our environment.

Also if someone can share any literature or URL on how to deploy MSI and MST using GP it would be great if you could provide.

Thanks,

Durango

[vmiller]

You should be able to limit it to Windows 7 by using a WMI filter.

[vmiller]

I have found this utility to be helpful in figuring out WMI info

http://www.robvanderwoude.com/wmigen.php

[durango]

Thank you. I've created a new GPO for software installation under computer configuration and enabled WMI filtering so that the GPO gets applied only Win7 machines. The WMI filtering works great. The GPO is configured to assign the software to computer accounts during reboot. The .msi and mst files are placed in the UNC path and read permissions are granted to authenticated users. The mst file is included under modifications tab. However, the problem right now is...the software is not getting installed. We saw the following errors in the Win7 event viewer:

" The processing of Group Policy failed. Windows could not resolve the computer name. This could be caused by one of more of the following:

a) Name Resolution failure on the current domain controller.

b) Active Directory Replication Latency (an account created on another domain controller has not replicated to the current domain controller). "

Thanks in advance for your help.

Durango