Re: Automatisch deinstallation of license software?

[Craig Wilson]

NAL Checks all rules and regulations prior to doing anything and performs
actions based upon that.
It will not recheck after each app is run.
It will recalculate upon the next refresh of NAL.

I would recommend associating Visio to PCs and not users.
This way if a user has more than one PC, they do not install it more than
once.
And if you automate the removal based upon LogonID, it could cause issues if
someone "borrows" someone elses PC briefly for any reason.

Then you could configure sometype of removal if the PC is not assigned the
app.
That also avoids the issue of your roaming installers.

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"leving22" <levi...@no-mx.forums.novell.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I made an installation NAL object of Visio 2007. Since there is a high
> license price on the use of Visio 2007, only some users have access to
> this NAL. Some users also install this application on the PC of
> collegues, since the NAL is bound to their userID and not their PC.
>
> To prevent this, I added a registry key to the installation NAL for
> checking purposes.
>
> I have one NAL that all users have as a Force Run that deleted this
> key.
>
> Then I added a NAL that deinstalls Visio 2007, after checking if the
> Visio-executable exists AND the registry key does not. This is linked to
> all my users and is force run.
> To make sure that users that do have access to Visio 2007 don't get the
> deinstallation, I made an fourth NAL that put the registry key in place
> again that is only linked to my Visio-group. This fouth NAL is linked by
> application dependency to the Uninstall NAL.
>
> In theory this should work well and users that do have access to Visio
> shouldn't get a deinstallation, because they have the registry key
> always.
>
> Now I noticed that even though the users have this key, they still get
> a deinstallation of Visio. This made we wonder about the order that
> NAL's work.
> When does a NAL check for its Distribution Rules? Is this before the
> application depencies are run?
>
> What is a good way to make sure that Visio 2007 (or other applications)
> are automaticly deinstalled if users don't have access, are not in the
> correct appliaction group?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
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