RE: VARPG - Deployment

[Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

There are a few ways, depending on your network.

If you have an NT Network you can use the Login script for users.  The login
script is just a DOS batch program that each computer runs when the user
logs in.  You can do something like:
if not exist "C:\Program Files\MyApp\Myapp.exe" goto InstallMyApp
Goto End

:InstallMyApp
mkdir "C:\Program Files\MyApp" > NULL
copy \\NTServer\MyAppShare\*.* "C:\Program Files\MyApp\*.*"
REM Do something here to add required registry entries

:End

The pain is the registry entries.  We use Kixstart, an NT addon that you can
get rather cheaply (search e-bay).

One of the other things we do in our login.bat is to copy from the share
certain common shortcuts to the machines local desktop, so all users have
these shortcuts.  Some of the shortcuts point to programs on the NT Server,
some point to programs on the PC itself (I don't know how users always
manage to wipe out their office shortcuts!).

HTH

Jim Langston

-----Original Message-----
From: JMoore@nycm.com [mailto:JMoore@nycm.com]

What is the best way to deploy an application and runtime to 500+ users
without having to visit each workstation.