Setting up the Group Policy object
In this procedure you use the installation packages that you created in Creating the transform file and extracting the installation packages to set up a Group Policy object (GPO). The GPO will deploy the agents onto the machines in your domain.
To set up the Group Policy object
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Log in to the domain controller as a domain administrator.
If the domain has more than one domain controller, log in to any of them as a domain administrator.
- [If you deploy agents in an organizational unit] Ensure that the organizational unit in which you want to deploy the agents exists in this domain.
- In the Windows Start menu, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Group Policy Management (or Active Directory Users and Computers for Windows Server 2003).
- [For Windows Server 2008 or later] Right-click the name of the domain or organizational unit, and then click Create a GPO in this domain, and Link it here.
- [For Windows Server 2003] Right-click the name of the domain or organizational unit, and then click Properties. In the dialog box, click the Group Policy tab, and then click New.
- Name the new Group Policy object Agent for Windows.
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Open the Agent for Windows Group Policy object for editing:
- [In Windows Server 2008 or later] Under Group Policy Objects, right-click the Group Policy object, and then click Edit.
- [In Windows Server 2003] Click the Group Policy object, and then click Edit.
- In the Group Policy object editor snap-in, expand Computer Configuration.
- [For Windows Server 2012 or later] Expand Policies > Software Settings.
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[For Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008] Expand Software Settings.
- Right-click Software installation, point to New, and then click Package.
- Select the agent's .msi installation package in the shared folder that you created, and then click Open.
- In the Deploy Software dialog box, click Advanced, and then click OK.
- On the Modifications tab, click Add, and then select the .mst file in the shared folder that you created.
- Click OK to close the Deploy Software dialog box.