Specifying Software Deployment Properties For The Gpo

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In this step, you define the default settings for all Windows 70-680 Installer packages in the GPO in the Software Installation Properties dialog box. The Software Installation Properties dialog box consists of the following tabs—General, Advanced, File Extensions, and Categories.
In the General and Advanced tabs, you specify how you want all Windows Installer packages in the GPO to be deployed and managed.
In the File Extensions tab, you specify which application users install when they select a file with an unknown extension. You can also configure a priority for installing applications when multiple applications are associated with an unknown file extension. For example, if you use a GPO to deploy both Microsoft Office XP Professional and Microsoft FrontPage 2002, both of these applications can edit Spreadsheet Load Library files with the .sll extension. To configure the file extension priority so that users who are managed by this GPO always install FrontPage, set FrontPage as the application with the highest priority for the .sll extension. When a user managed by this MCITP Certification ...
... who has installed neither Microsoft Word 2002 nor FrontPage 2002 receives an .sll file (by e-mail or other means) and double-clicks the .sll file, Software Installation installs FrontPage 2000 and opens the .sll file for editing. Without Software Installation, the user would see the Open With dialog box and be asked to select the best alternative from the software already present on his or her computer. File extension associations are managed on a per-GPO basis. Changing the priority order in a GPO affects only those users who have that GPO applied to them.
In the Categories tab, you can designate categories for organizing assigned and published applications to make it easier for users to locate the appropriate application from within Add Or Remove Programs in Control Panel.
Some of the settings in the Software Installation Properties dialog box can be fine-tuned at the package level by editing the Properties dialog box for a specific Windows Installer package.
Creating a GPO and a GPO Console for Software Deployment
In this step, you create a GPO and a GPO console for the software deployment. The pro-cedures for creating a ccna exam fees GPO and a GPO console are covered in Chapter 10, "Implement?ing Group Policy."