1. Chapter 10: Supporting and Maintaining Desktop Applications

2. Supporting Deployed Applications
Growing Number of Applications
Must Control what users install
Deployment Solutions
Group Policy
Systems Management Server

3. Deploying Applications Using Group Policy
Application Packages
Published Applications
Upgrading Software
Uninstalling

4. Application Packages
Define the Application to install and all parameters
Deployed via Group Policy

5. Application Package Types
Assigned – Application is Will be installed
Published – Application is optional

6. Published Application
Available via Programs applet in Control Panel

7. Understanding Microsoft Systems Management Server
Allows management of large groups of computers
Patch Management
Software distribution
Hardware and Software Inventory

8. Setting Up Software Restriction Policies
Restrict specific applications
Allows only specific applications to run
Must specify executable type (some examples below)
EXE
MSI
COM

9. Software Restriction Security Levels
Disallow – Only applications matching a rule can run
Basic User – Applications not matching a rule can run as normal user only
Unrestricted – All applications can run unless a rules restricts it

10. Understanding Software Restriction Rules
Defines how applications are identified
Four Different Restriction Rules
Path rules
Hash rules
Certificate rules
Network zone rules

11. Maintaining Desktop Applications
MSI Installer Files
MST Transform Files
Restart Manager
UAC Integration