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MrEdmundo
Asked: 2009-06-12 01:32:53 +0800 CST

Update group policy installed software without requiring a log off

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Our IT Support Dept. releases an internal software product that I write via group policy.

Is it possible to force an update of a particular group policy software install without asking the users to log off and log back on to their machines?

group-policy installation

5 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The software cannot install/upgrade unless the user reboots his computer (Computer objects in GPO gets applied before the user can log on). Maybe Vista can do this, I'm not sure - but with XP you really do have to reboot.

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  2. In a command shell you can run

    gpupdate /force

    which will (as the command implies) force a group policy update. It can also be tailored to update the user or computer policy with the switch

    /target:computer

    or

    /target:user

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  3. For Win 2003:

    gpupdate /force /target:computer

    For Win 2000:

    secedit /refreshpolicy machine_policy /enforce

    Not sure about XP but you could try both

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  4. It's a cheat compared to your question, but you could use psexec to remotely install the package on computers while not having to break users activity. Psexec is from Sysinternals (Microsoft now) for free

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  5. Maybe creating a schedule task for the users, and this task run the vbscript or something else for update the App. The script must verify the version of executable previous replace or run update task.

        On Error Resume Next
DIM fso    
Dim version
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") 
x86=wshShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%")&"\Cisco Systems\Cisco Jabber\CiscoJabber.exe"
x64=wshShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%PROGRAMFILES%")&"\Cisco Systems\Cisco Jabber\CiscoJabber.exe"
If (fso.FileExists(x86) or fso.FileExists(x64)) Then
  version= CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject").GetFileVersion(x86)
  if (strcomp(version,"",1)=0) then
    version= CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject").GetFileVersion(x64)
    'Wscript.echo "x64"
  end if
  'Wscript.Echo version & "  en x86"
  if (strcomp(version,"11.5.1.29337",1)=0) then
    'Wscript.Echo "Tiene la ultima version"
  else

    'Wscript.Echo "Updating"
    WshShell.Run "msiexec.exe /I ""\\server\sharedfolder\CiscoJabberSetup.msi"" /quiet"

  end if
Else
  'WScript.Echo("Install as new app")
  'WshShell.Run  "msiexec.exe /I ""\\server\sharefolder\CiscoJabberSetup.msi"" /quiet"

End If
WScript.Quit()
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