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demonachizer: Aug 7, 2004

Is SCCM an addon for the Domain Controller? The place I work at is a bit strange in that we have full control over a section of our AD but we can't make higher level changes. We can put management tools on our servers no problem so I just want to confirm that it is possible.

# ¿ Jul 13, 2010 16:53

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demonachizer: Aug 7, 2004

peak debt posted:

It may need to do a schema modification depending on what has been used before. The SCCM installer has a quick prerequisite checker that will tell you if that needs to be done. If the schema is ok, you can manage software deployment just by having administrative control over the clients, updating with a group policy and image deployment by having admin control over the DHCP server.

Bleh no admin control over DHCP. Just over the AD for our area of the university and of course all of our clients. If we are lucky one of the larger groups will have implemented this already and we can ride their coat tails as far as schema changes, otherwise it becomes a way larger pain in the rear end since it is unlikely they will change something that affects 30k machines to make our lives easier with 1500ish.

Are there lots of things that have to be done on the DHCP server to get the deployment end up and running? We have a decent relationship with the network group so if it is a one time configuration issue we might be ok but if it is something that has to be done with each new client probably not. Currently we can request static IP addresses and poo poo from them based on MACs so if that is all that is needed we are ok.

demonachizer fucked around with this message at Jul 13, 2010 around 18:00

# ¿ Jul 13, 2010 17:55

demonachizer: Aug 7, 2004

Office 2010 deployment using GPOs.

Has anyone gotten this to work? I am kind of at my wits end because I have done exactly what they say to do at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/...y/ff602181.aspx but can only get an error code 5 out of the log files (I can't find reference to what error code 5 is). For some reason it seems that MS decided not to include a way to deploy this as an MSI.

The way we do it currently for all software is we have a share that has "Everyone" with read access. What it seems like though is that because when this runs as a startup script it isn't running in the context of a user account it never hits our share. We can't do this as a logon script because our users are not admins...

If you have succeeded with this please let me know. I want to deploy 2010 to about 700 machines in the next couple months...

# ¿ May 26, 2011 17:26

demonachizer: Aug 7, 2004

quackquackquack posted:

Error 5 is usually a permissions error, or sometimes 'file not found' in my experience.

Post the command you are calling to install Office.

When you run it as a startup script, you're running it as the computer account, not the user account, so make sure (iirc) that 'domain computers' have read access to the folder containing your installation files.

EDIT: Oh, and PS, 'domain computers' is a member of 'domain users', so you can use that instead of 'everyone' for your NTFS permissions on the share that contains your installation files and catch both logon and startup scripts.

We actually don't have a domain computers group and since we are a part of a university there is no feasible way of getting one as they probably have reasons on their end to not use it.

So I tried running it with the following in both the sharing section with read access and under file permissions with the same:

Everyone
Authenticated Users
The computer itself that I am testing with
Anonymous Users

The code I have used is this from MS:

code:

setlocal

REM *********************************************************************
REM Environment customization begins here. Modify variables below.
REM *********************************************************************

REM Get ProductName from the Office product's core Setup.xml file, and then add "office14." as a prefix. 
set ProductName=Office14.PROPLUS

REM Set DeployServer to a network-accessible location containing the Office source files.
set DeployServer=\\FS\Office2010SourceFiles

REM Set ConfigFile to the configuration file to be used for deployment (required)
set ConfigFile=\\FS\Office2010SourceFiles\ProPlus.WW\config.xml

REM Set LogLocation to a central directory to collect log files.
set LogLocation=\\FS\Office2010LogFiles

REM *********************************************************************
REM Deployment code begins here. Do not modify anything below this line.
REM *********************************************************************

IF NOT "%ProgramFiles(x86)%"=="" (goto ARP64) else (goto ARP86)

REM Operating system is X64. Check for 32 bit Office in emulated Wow6432 uninstall key
:ARP64
reg query HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432NODE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\%ProductName%
if NOT %errorlevel%==1 (goto End)

REM Check for 32 and 64 bit versions of Office 2010 in regular uninstall key.(Office 64bit would also appear here on a 64bit OS) 
:ARP86
reg query HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\%ProductName%
if %errorlevel%==1 (goto DeployOffice) else (goto End)

REM If 1 returned, the product was not found. Run setup here.
:DeployOffice
start /wait %DeployServer%\setup.exe /config %ConfigFile%
echo %date% %time% Setup ended with error code %errorlevel%. >> %LogLocation%\%computername%.txt

REM If 0 or other was returned, the product was found or another error occurred. Do nothing.
:End

Endlocal

EDIT:
I finally got it to work with:

code:

net use \\$Server\$Share /user:$Server\$User $Password
start /wait \\$Server\$Share\setup.exe
echo %date% %time% Setup ended with error code %errorlevel%. >> c:\%computername%.txt

I will edit in the net use to the MS script and see if it works.

demonachizer fucked around with this message at May 27, 2011 around 13:20

# ¿ May 27, 2011 13:07

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