Windows Media Player 11 on XP SP3 with Mandatory Profiles
Mark
the users with mandatory profiles it fails to run just giving a message to
Log off, Log back on and then start media player. This does not work however.
The only fix I have found so far is to re-install then it works for the first
user to log on. However this is too slow a solution
zachd [MSFT]
What's the exact text of the message?
What does "mandatory" mean?
It sounds to me that the installation required a reboot. In XP, that
requires the admin to log on in order to finish the install (since admin
credentials are needed).
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Mark
"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:
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> What's the exact text of the message?
An alert box saying
Log off, Log back on and then start media player
>
> What does "mandatory" mean?
ntuser.man
I am trying to deploy it across a school. Manual install is not an option.
> .
>
Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]
It sounds like you may be setting the standard installer up to run on
first boot (I imagine)
Are you aware there's a customisable EDP (enterprise deployment pack)
available for WMP9 and 10 deployments, which creates a specific MSI ?
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/enterprise/deploypackfaq.aspx
I've not tried that but I imagine it's designed to be flexible enough
to meet your needs... ZachD previously mentioned that it can be
rearranged to deploy the WMP11 installer instead of WMP10.
HTH
Cheers - Neil
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zachd [MSFT]
Actually, I took the time to update the v10 EDP for v11, but there's no
"release" available for it so you have to actually contact MS support to get
it. =\
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zachd [MSFT]
> "zachd [MSFT]" wrote:
>> What's the exact text of the message?
> An alert box saying
> Log off, Log back on and then start media player
lol - no, it doesn't: there's no message in the player that says that exact
text. =)
I asked for "exact" text because there's a variety of potential error
messages that have similar causes with similar text, but the precision of
the exact error indicates exactly what they mean.
But luckily I *think* know what you're talking about based upon that
*similar* text.
>>
>> What does "mandatory" mean?
> ntuser.man
> I am trying to deploy it across a school. Manual install is not an option.
>> It sounds to me that the installation required a reboot. In XP, that
>> requires the admin to log on in order to finish the install (since admin
>> credentials are needed).
I think you're seeing a similar net effect, actually. Because the other
profile either is a) logged in at the time of install or b) not being logged
on through normal Windows log-in procedures, you're skipping ActiveSetup
registration which does the initial user-based configuration post-upgrade.
Is the user still logged in at the time, or ... ?
If you forced a user profile logout, this should work properly.
There's some hacky ways to achieve the same net effect, but I wouldn't
recommend them. At a minimum you'd want/need to run the ActiveSetup stub,
but doing that without actually doing the profile logout/login is
unsupported.
Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]
<za...@nomailplz.online.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>Actually, I took the time to update the v10 EDP for v11, but there's no
>"release" available for it so you have to actually contact MS support to get
>it. =\
>
Cool, OK cheers. However presumably they'd want $50 or whatever it is
to answer the user in the first place, and that would be before the
user was aware there was an updated EDP <g>
Sébastien Mouren
deployed it, it requires users to log in, launch it to register other
settings.
You could make your profile mandatory after the second phase of WMP
deployment so those settings would be written to the registry definitely.
You could use GP preference , a custom made ADM file applied under local GP,
use zachd WMPEDP.