Assign Software GPO

[MandG]

I'm trying to Publish an MSI program to my Domain's Computer OU. This
is a Windows 2000 domain with XP clients. The specific GPO is set up
under the Computer Configuration/Software Settings and the installation

file is located on a networked file server (\\10.10.10.3\installs\MS
Defender\WindowsDefender.msi)

However the RSoP shows that software installation failed with the below

message.

<Error message>
Wednesday, January 10, 2007 3:12:21 PM

Software Installation failed due to the error listed below.
The installation source for this product is not available. Verify that

the source exists and that you can access it.

Additional Information:
The reinstall of application Windows Defender from policy Windows
Defender failed. The error was : The installation source for this
product is not available. Verify that the source exists and that you
can access it.

Failed to apply changes to software installation settings. Software
changes could not be applied. A previous log entry with details should

exist. The error was : The installation source for this product is not

available. Verify that the source exists and that you can access it.
</Error message>

First, did I set up this GPO correctly (using Computer config and not
User config)?

And second, why are client machines unable to get to this install?

[myweb]

Hello MandG,

-Try if you can access your folder. Start>run> \\10.10.10.3\installs\MS
Defender\
Opens the folder?
- Did you add the domain computers group or the machines you like to add
to the security from your policy?
- As i see it right you have published the msi file. That requires user action
to install with "add remove programs". If you set it to assign the msi package
will be installed automatically the next time the user logs in or the machine
starts up(depends on your configuration, user or machine)

Best regards

myweb
Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers
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[MandG]

myweb wrote:
> Hello MandG,
>
> -Try if you can access your folder. Start>run> \\10.10.10.3\installs\MS
> Defender\
> Opens the folder?
> - Did you add the domain computers group or the machines you like to add
> to the security from your policy?
> - As i see it right you have published the msi file. That requires user action
> to install with "add remove programs". If you set it to assign the msi package
> will be installed automatically the next time the user logs in or the machine
> starts up(depends on your configuration, user or machine)

I'm sorry for the confusion - actually, I assigned the msi file (not
Publish) in the GPO. I verified that I can successfully open the folder
from my cleint (\\10.10.10.3\installs\MS Defender).

I verifed that the domain computers group is added to the NTFS
permissions, the Share permissions, and the GPO permissions.

Could there be a log other than RSoP that would provide further details
on why this is failing? It seems that the error data in the RSoP snapin
is rather vague.

[Florian Frommherz]

Howdie!

MandG wrote:
> I'm trying to Publish an MSI program to my Domain's Computer OU. This
> is a Windows 2000 domain with XP clients. The specific GPO is set up
> under the Computer Configuration/Software Settings and the installation
>
> file is located on a networked file server (\\10.10.10.3\installs\MS
> Defender\WindowsDefender.msi)

Try using the Servername instead of the IP address:
\\Servername\installs\MS Defender... - will it work then?

cheers,

Florian
--
Nachwuschsadmin aus dem Süddeutschen/Germany.
eMail: Vorname [bei] frickelsoft [Punkt] net.
blog: http://www.frickelsoft.net/blog.

[MandG]

> Try using the Servername instead of the IP address:
> \\Servername\installs\MS Defender... - will it work then?

Yep, that worked too so DNS isn't an issue. Even still, the GPO has the
actual IP address listed on the 'Source' column.

This is pretty weird as I can't think of any other area to investigate.
And it's a little difficult without any more detail from the error log.

[payt...@gmail.com]

If u assign any .msi file u have to do an admin point install to that
directory if deploying through a GPO to the directory that u have
shared out.......

msiexec /a windowsdefender.msi ... the wizard will guide u through the
rest

This should help.

FYI...the final version of defender will not work with windows 2k

[dboy...@gmail.com]

I also have the same problem,

the pc account has been granted full control on the share, i have used
ip, and have msi exec /a'd it too but to no avail.