Software Installation just won’t install MSI package

It was again one of those days that I barely banged my head against the table just to hurt myself for all the ignorancy I had.
These are the facts: I was tasked to roll out the Office 2007 Compatilibity Pack so users can open and save documents created with Office 2007 using their Office 2003 […]

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Re-installing packages, some local administrators did remove

This is a short description on ow you’d proceed when you need to reinstall applications that were deployed through Software Installation but local administrators manually removed them.
As you will see, that’s not a solution you can consider bullet-proof so that you might use it over and over again. It’s more like a “okay, we use […]

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Are Group Policy Software Installation packages cached on a client?

A guy on Darren’s Group Policy Mailing list, http://www.gpoguy.com/lists.htm, came up with that question just a few hours ago.
He basically lost his distribution server and wanted to know if there was a way to rescue MSI files stored on the server. He searched on the client machine if they would cache them after or during […]

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