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Deploy file to many user's profiles

Updated: 22 May 2010 | 1 comment
Michael King 3's picture
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First, I know the forum is moving today. Second, I need an answer today, so I'm a little worried this will disappear in the shuffle.



Environment:

HP 5720 and HP 5730 Thinclients. WinXP Embedded using enhanced write filter.

Each is joined to the domain, and is set to autologon to a domain account. Each machine has it's own domain account named the same as the machine name. (Mostly, maybe 3% are different but will eventually be fixed as they are found)



There is a file called:

c:\Documents and Settings\%username%\application Data\ICAClient\APPSRV.INI



in every user account on the thinclients. I need to replace them with an updated file. (Yes I know Citrix has better mechisiasm for keeping the agents updated. I don't have the luxury of using them. That's the next battle I have to fight)



The Enhanced Write filter is what is killing me.



I create a RapidInstall job that replaces the file on the currently logged on user. It works great.



However, company policy requires I reboot all thin clients . This means they're sitting at the CTRL-ALT-DEL screen when the RapidInstall Job runs. (We have a logon banner that displays that prevents the autologon completing till someone manually clicks OK, this is for policy compliance)



I tried checking the "apply to all users" in the software package job for the Rapid install, but this appears to not have an effect.



So I need a way to complete this. I'm not married to RapidInstall, it was just a tool that I knew could complete the job, and I didn't have to think too hard to make it work. However it's not acheiving the goal. (Either I'm doing something wrong, or it can't do it)



Thanks

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Phyrant's picture
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2009
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If the computer name is the same as the user name that you want to copy the file to you can just do a Copy File job to copy the file to C:\Documents and Settings\%COMPNAME%\Application Data\ICAClient\APPSRV.INI