Jason, use a monitoring tool like "total uninstaller" from http://www.martau.com to identify where the software needs permission to write (registry AND file system). You should examine it twice. First during installation and later during normal program run. After identifying the permission requirements and changed the default permissions you may have more success...
Volker > Okay, our environment is that all our clients are running Windows XP SP2, > and our servers are Windows 2003. The situation is that our Accounting > department uses Quickbooks, and about 70 of our employees need to use an > application that comes with Quickbooks called "QB Timer". It's free for > use for our employees and it integrates with Quickbooks without requiring > a Quickbooks install on each machine. Now, the quandry: according to > Intuit/Quickbooks, the program requires at least Power User permissions to > install and run. Neither I, nor our CIO are willing to give local Power > User permissions for these users, as that opens things up to too many > potential problems, but our CFO and COO are REQUIRING the use of this > application, or a similar one that integrates with Quickbooks. Now, the > QBTimer is free, which is good, so that's the *preferred* app to use. It > comes as an exe with a few other files, so I used WinInstall LE 2003 on a > clean XP SP2 machine to package it into an MSI file. That worked well, > and I can install it/assign it through GPO - even if the user doesn't have > local Power User privs. However, true to form with Intuit products, it > won't run if the logged on user doesn't have local admin or PU privs. If > I grant PU privs to the user, it runs fine. I feel like I am --> <-- this > close to getting this done, but I ran out of ideas to get this to work. I > tried looking at the reg file that was made when I ran WinInstall and gave > the users full rights to the specific areas in the registry to see if that > did anything; which it didn't. > > Does anyone else have any siggestions, or am I stuck with Intuit's "users > must have >= Power User privs" to run that app? > > ANY help or suggestions are GREATLY appreciated! > > --Jason List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
