Installing Quicktime 7 through Active Directory

Further to yesterdays posting I have also been trying to install Quicktime 7.62 to around 200 computers through the Active Directory application Software Installation GPO. As with Sketchup Apple did not provide an MSI file, but the quicktimeinstaller.exe file they do provide does extract to an MSI in the following folders when you double-click it and get to the “Welcome to the QuickTime 7 Installer” Screen:

Under Vista: C:\Users\User\Local Settings\temp\

Under WinXP: C:\documents and settings\User\Local Settings\Temp\

Under the above folders look for a folder who’s name is similar to IXP484.TMP (the string of three numbers appears to be random and changes each time you open the QuickTimeInstaller.exe) and copy the Quicktime.msi file to a place accessible by your workstations on a network.

After assigning the Quicktime.msi file in a GPO you will need to do one more thing to get the application to install. Right click on quicktime in your list of applications to be installed under software installation and select properties.

Note that the language says Chinese (Taiwan). If this package was left as is, the installation would not occur unless your installed XP/Vista systems were this language.

Now goto the Deployment Tab and click advanced towards the bottom. Select “Ignore language when deploying this package”. Click Ok, Ok and close down the Group Policy Editor and Group Policy Management

Deploy Google Sketchup 7 using Active Directory

Google only distributes google sketchup as an exe file which is not assignable through Active Directory Group Policy. This exe is only a wrapper for the msi file though and this msi is able to be assigned to computers.

To get the msi file double-click on the GoogleSketchUpWEN.exe downloaded and when its at the “Welcome to the google sketchup 7 setup wizard” open windows explorer and goto the folder:

Under Vista: C:\Users\User\Local Settings\temp\

Under WinXP: C:\documents and settings\User\Local Settings\Temp\

and look for a folder that looks like 7zS4211.tmp, This folder was named differently on the machines I tried but it always started with “7z” and ended in “.tmp”.

Within that folder is “GoogleSketchUp7.msi” and a “setup.exe” which can now be assigned to your computers using the Active Directory Group Policy Software Installation settings or installed using a command line to machines individually using a login script.

List of Control Panel Applets .cpl Files

The list of Control Panel applets below can be used to create a list of control panel items users can see (Or not allowed to see) within their Control Panel with the help of the Active Directory GPO setting “Show only specified Control Panel  applets” or “Hide specified Control Panel applets”.

These settings are found under User Configuration -> Administration Templates -> Control Panel” within a Group Policy Object.