Re: Secure Remote Application and OS Deployment?

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2. Secure installation of applications

in the windows server family of products in an active directory
environment you can publish an msi(windows installer package) via
group policy.

this will add the proposed application application to users start menu
and will then install when user clicks it for the first time.

this beats the hell out of manually installing on a 100+ clients.

you can also set group policy to elevate rights during install. this
will allow non-admin users to install applicati

On 3/16/09, Chip Panarchy <forumanarchy () gmail com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> Been doing a lot of research of late into the installation of Windows
> over a network (using the Unattended BootCD and a Network Share). Also
> a little into RIS (WDS).
>
> I am interested in how this could be done securely. To summarise what
> I would like to know, I have summarised it into the 2 questions below;
>
> 1. Is there a Secure way to Remotely install: Windows XP, Windows
> Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Linux (GNU way, so I
> can install the feature on any *nix) & Mac OS X, if so, how?
> 2. Is there a Secure way to Remotely install applications (from a
> central repository) to the aforementioned Operating Systems, if so,
> how?
>
> NOTE: If it isn't possible for some of the OSs, please tell me which,
> then please continue to answer how it will be possible for the others.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Chip D. Panarchy

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