Re: Browsers and OS's

[Matt Kirchhoff <mek () PDX EDU>]

Quoth Valdis Kletnieks on 10/4/2005 10:25 PM:
> On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 21:15:01 CDT, "Shalla, Kevin" said:
>
> > How about using Active Directory and Group Policy to force installation of
> > new versions of Firefox?  Then only the administrator has to notice the
> > upgrade, download the software, and set up the policy and software
> > package.
>
> That works great, given 2 assumptions:
>
> 1) That the AD admin (or somebody) knows how to build MSI's as needed.

For those interested, Frontmotion provides Firefox MSIs for free:

http://www.frontmotion.com/Firefox/index.htm

The usual caveats of trusting 3rd-party tools apply...


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Matt Kirchhoff
Client Systems Administration
Office of Information Technologies
Portland State University
mek () pdx edu