.Net Framework 2.0 Deployment through AD

9 Feb 2006 5:36 PM

JamesL

Our organization would like to deploy .NET 2.0 from within Active Directory.
Is there any documentation on how to do that. I found a document about
deploying it from .NET version 1.1 at this
url:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnnetdep/html/deploynetfx1-1withad.asp
I tried following the .NET 1.1 instructions for our 2000 Active Directory
and could not get it to work. Some of the deployment options are greyed out
or different with the .NET 2.0 MSI Package. Do you have any suggestions.
Thanks in advance!

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jamesl

10 Feb 2006 4:35 AM

Cary Shultz

Jamesl,

I remember trying to deploy dotNet 1.1 via GPO to computers a good while ago
and it did not work so well. This was in a WIN2000 AD environment with
WIN2000 Professional clients. Other GPOs worked just fine...there were no
DNS issues or permission issues...it just did not work. I tried in both the
lab and in the production environment (limited computer accounts involved
initially).

I have successfully installed dotNET 1.1 via a unattended CD that I have for
both WIN2000 and WINXP. However, it fails with dotNet 2.0 due to a problem
that is well known (disable rollback). There are two registry keys that
come into play.

Please see these links:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/gp/326.asp
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/40692/40692.html

If you navigate to the shared network folder manually can you install the
software....but when you try it do so via GPO it fails? If this is the case
then we need to look at GPO itself. I would start by making sure that the
GPO is using the UNC method to give AD the location of the .msi file (so, it
would be \\servername\sharename\dotNetfx.msi ) instead of using a mapped
network drive ( so, that would be something like
S:\servername\sharedfolder\folder01\dotnetfx.msi ) and I would make sure
that 'Domain Computers' (or any other group that you might have used) has at
least READ and EXECUTE for both Share and NTFS permissions.

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Cary W. Shultz
Roanoke, VA 24012

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"JamesL" <Jam***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Our organization would like to deploy .NET 2.0 from within Active
> Directory.
> Is there any documentation on how to do that. I found a document about
> deploying it from .NET version 1.1 at this
> url:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnnetdep/html/deploynetfx1-1withad.asp
> I tried following the .NET 1.1 instructions for our 2000 Active Directory
> and could not get it to work. Some of the deployment options are greyed
> out
> or different with the .NET 2.0 MSI Package. Do you have any suggestions.
> Thanks in advance!
>
> --
> jamesl