Hi, this is Kevin Hodak of GFI Software. Today, I would like to show with you three tips on deploying Adobe reader with GFI Landguard. We’ll start with the deployment of the Adobe MSI file itself along with the switch on which to deploy the file side of it.
We’ll then look at some of the deployment options, specifically how to warn other users that you are going to deploying software to their work stations. And then, we'll finish with the software audit. The software audit can be use can be use for one or two things, either to verify that the deployment was successful or maybe to look at the machines that are not working to see which one is missing and their will be immediately updated before you begin your deployment. Let us go ahead and get started.
We’ll start by going to the tools menu, choosing application management and deploy custom software. We’ll then choose add and point to the adobe executable file, and we’ll also add the parameter for silent installation. We then click add on the specified target computers and point to our Windows7 release candidate machine. We’ll click on the deployment options and in this case we just leave as the default because we don’t want to warn the user and there is no need reboot with this deployment.
At this point, we’ll click the deploy to start the deployment process. One of the first things you’ll note here is that in this case the remote registry service will stop on the remote machine and Landguard went ahead and started that for us for the deployment. So let’s switch over the Window7 machine and click okay on the warning that Landguard is going to be deploying software.
Once the deployment completes, we will switch back over to the target machine and you can see here that Adobe was successfully installed. Now to verify that the deployment across a larger number of machines or maybe you wanted to perform a scan to see which machines need Adobe, we can perform a software audit. So do that by starting by starting a new scan. Choosing software audit from the scanning profiles and choosing a scan of single computer and entering in the name of the machine that we want to scan.
As you see the scan progress bar is starting, you can switch over to analyze and at the bottom of the network discovery tab, you’ll see the machines that are determined to be alive during the scan and each one will be dedicated to a scanning thread, we can see more detailed information about the scanning progress.
So once it is complete, we can expand the software note and do the applications installed on the machine and see here that Adobe was successfully installed. So to review the three main things we looked at are, number one, how to deploy Adobe itself that is including switch for a silent deployment. We also looked at the deployment options specifically warning the end user that you are going to install software, and then we also looked to performing a software audit.
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