Unit 9 Exercise 1
Baldeo Persaud
NT 1330
Unit 9 Exercise 1
To: Business Manager
To get the Adobe Acrobat Reader deployed on all of your machines via Group Policy, follow these step-by-step instructions. As far as excluding the engineering department, simply do not include them in the OU.
1. Go to the Organizational Unit that you want to apply software to
2. Right click on the OU and select ‘Create a GPO in this Domain, and link it here…’
3. Write your GPO name. mine was “Software – Adobe Reader 11.0” Click OK
4. Right Click on GPO, Click Edit
5. Drill down “Computer Configuration – Policies – Software Settings – Software Installations”
6. Right click “Software Installations”
7. Click ‘New – Package’
8. Browse to your server share of ‘yourNameOfPackage’ Click Open
9. Select Deployment Method: Advanced
a. Under General Tab - Change the name if you want to
b. Under Deployment Tab – Change whether you want the application to uninstall off computers when you remove the GPO
c. Under Upgrades Tab - You can choose GPO’s which this can upgrade over. For example older versions of Acrobat and also gives you the ability to either uninstall then install the new product or just do an upgrade.
10. Click Modifications Tab
11. Click Add…
12. Browse to your ‘yourNameOfPackage’ folder on the server share and select your ‘yourNameOf.MST’ file.
13. Click Open
14. Click Ok
15. Exit out of Group Policy Management, restart the computers and enjoy!
IT Consultant
NT 1330
Unit 9 Exercise 1
To: Business Manager
To get the Adobe Acrobat Reader deployed on all of your machines via Group Policy, follow these step-by-step instructions. As far as excluding the engineering department, simply do not include them in the OU.
1. Go to the Organizational Unit that you want to apply software to
2. Right click on the OU and select ‘Create a GPO in this Domain, and link it here…’
3. Write your GPO name. mine was “Software – Adobe Reader 11.0” Click OK
4. Right Click on GPO, Click Edit
5. Drill down “Computer Configuration – Policies – Software Settings – Software Installations”
6. Right click “Software Installations”
7. Click ‘New – Package’
8. Browse to your server share of ‘yourNameOfPackage’ Click Open
9. Select Deployment Method: Advanced
a. Under General Tab - Change the name if you want to
b. Under Deployment Tab – Change whether you want the application to uninstall off computers when you remove the GPO
c. Under Upgrades Tab - You can choose GPO’s which this can upgrade over. For example older versions of Acrobat and also gives you the ability to either uninstall then install the new product or just do an upgrade.
10. Click Modifications Tab
11. Click Add…
12. Browse to your ‘yourNameOfPackage’ folder on the server share and select your ‘yourNameOf.MST’ file.
13. Click Open
14. Click Ok
15. Exit out of Group Policy Management, restart the computers and enjoy!
IT Consultant