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Rollout VNC to all XP desktops via Group Policy? - Admins Goodies — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 05:57:39 +0000

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By: Dave Harris

Dave Harris — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:42:30 +0000

Great post, worked well after a bit of tinkering. I used this to write a slightly updated guide on my blog using VNCed UltraVNC creator 1.1.8 and deployment via server 2k8. Exactly the same concept though.

Cheers!

By: soelli

soelli — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:36:15 +0000

nice tutorial – it works fine for windows xp
if i try to install the msi package on a windows 7 client i receive the following error
“The Installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package. This may indicate a problem with this package. The error code is 2755.
any ideas?
thanks

By: UltraVNC installation by Group policies « Diego Tech Weblog

UltraVNC installation by Group policies « Diego Tech Weblog — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:03:09 +0000

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By: waynezim

waynezim — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:57:21 +0000

Andre,

In my deployment, I used Computer Policy to install the application and it seems to do it when the computer is starting up before the user logs in.

In my experience it doesn’t try to install multiple times, maybe if you assigned the software using User Policy I could see how that might happen but I would think it would detect that the required software is already install and that policy requirement is met.

By: Andre

Andre — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:49:39 +0000

Wayne, Good work. It worked as Dave pointed out flawlessly here to. But I have a doubt of the deployment process. Everytime the user logs on to the machine the software (ultraVNC) will be installed?

Best Regards!

By: waynezim

waynezim — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:13:15 +0000

Dave, I checked though the options in VNCed and did not see any options to change the installation path. I also checked the documentation for VNCed but didn’t come up with anything, however, you might try making the MSI as described in the post and then use a utility like ORCA to modify the MSI and change some of the parameters within the MSI. I did this once installing some old software that was looking for a specific MDAC version in Win2000 but wouldn’t recognize the version that comes in Win2003. Hope this gets you in the right direction.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:45:12 +0000

Outstanding post! It worked flawlessly.
One question: I’d like to install the “UltraVNC” folder to a location different than under “C:\Program Files\”.
I’m guessing there must be a string in one of the Java Class files with the installatin path.
Where would I make the path change?