December 2007 Entries

Error when publishing apps in GPO:

We got an error yesterday that I'd not seen before, when publishing two separate packages. Both of them were created by Visual Studio 2008 instead of our typical Wise/InstallShield packages. The error was "No package in the software installation data in the Active Directory meets this criteria.". A web search found nothing useful on this error; I'd started digging into it to maybe be the first to provide something on it -- but during troubleshooting both packages were published without error. MSI...

Apps Expire from local MSI cache

I've had this post rattling around in my head for a few months now, but I've never had enough hard data to really flesh it out as well as I'd liked. I still don't, but I need to get this down on paper. Apps deployed via Group Policy expire from the local cache. This can be a problem if the app is removed from the servers, or if you make changes to an existing app that would make its MSI not match the installation (Product/Package code changes, etc). I don't have the details as to why - whether it's...