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flanger
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Hello,

 

What is the best practice to execute unica.exe through Group Policy?  I have made a batch file with the parameters and try to execute the script at startup, but it seems that Administator right are needed.  Is there a way to configure this through group policy (and preferably not through third party programs)?

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Several points to consider:

-If you have 1000+ users, the share can become overloaded

-you have to run it as administrator.

-When you deploy software using policies in AD, it's being installed using the system account. which should be good.

-We suppose software deployment using policies only works with MSI/MST packages.

 

Let us know if/how it worked for you!

 

 

flanger
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Gourami Support wrote:

-When you deploy software using policies in AD, it's being installed using the system account. which should be good.

-We suppose software deployment using policies only works with MSI/MST packages.

 

 

 

Hello,

 

Thank you for your speedy answer.

 

Is there a possibility then to deploy unica (plus the necesary parameters) in a single msi file?

 

Greetings,

Lieven

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No, the problem is, unica is a .exe file, which finds all citrix client installations, you cannot convert that to a msi file. There are no such scripting possebilties in a msi package. It really needs the smart conditoning of a .exe program. 

 

Normally Unica is ran from the login script, using a rights tool like tcq run as, but there are several other tools like that.

 

 

flanger
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Gourami Support wrote:

 

Normally Unica is ran from the login script, using a rights tool like tcq run as, but there are several other tools like that.

 

 

 

Hello,

 

Again thank you for your answer

 

Is there a particular Run As tool that is free of charge?

 

Best regards,

 

Lieven

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We found this using google, but it rather old:

 

http://www.commandline.co.uk/sanur/

 

Here's something free, http://www.verydoc.com/exeshell.html

 

But we supose the problem with the free tools is that the password is not encrypted!

 

Let us know if you find one that good!

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