On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 9:38 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd asked the group about leaving the old GPO for Acrobat (which installed > 8.1.1) when 8.1.2 came out. I was told I could leave the 8.1.1 as is, and > the system would apply the newer one.
If you add a newer version of a "Software Installation" item to *the same GPO*, that item will upgrade the older versions. The system looks at SI items in the same GPO to find items to get upgraded. If you add the SI to an entirely new GPO, then I believe both will end up getting installed, or at least try to get installed, which sounds like what you've got. > Where in the network is the "leave it the $#*& alone!" setting for once a > GPO has been applied? GPOs are more-or-less continuously applied, as long as they are in scope. They aren't a one-time thing. Software installation happens during boot for anything a GPO says should be installed. If MSI thinks something isn't installed, and a GPO says it should be, it will (re)install it during boot. There is an option that tells Windows to leave software installed if the GPO which installed it falls out of scope. If that option is not enabled, when a GPO falls out of scope, any software it caused to be installed will be automatically uninstalled during next boot. -- Ben ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
