[RESOLVED] Multi User Rollout of Widows App

[FishGuy]

I have wwritten a small windows app with vb.netand would now like to deploy it. I built a setup project origionally which allowed me to install it on users machines with the install wizard one by one. The problem now is that there are thirty users wanting the app and it isnt really convenient to go round all machines and manually install it very time. In addition to this is there a way to automatically update the installed versions when I have created a new release. My problem is deepened further because the people using the apps move from machine to machine and the different users may not require access to the app. I am not a network guy just a lowly developet so am not sure about the options. We have a windows 2000 domain and network. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[FishGuy]

My NA has used active directory to roll out the application to the different users based on their groups when they login. The Icon is placed on the desktop and when they click it runs a silent install. This means that aslong as I place the most current version of my app in the same folder my NAs Login scripts will pickup and copy the msi package to to the user. Thus the users will alsways have the most current update of the app. On the down side for the Auto update to be effective the app is uninstalled on shut down and reinstalled on next use. Any comments!

[Hack]

That sounds effective, in fact, I was going to suggest something along those very lines and then I read your second post and saw you were already doing it.