If you’re going to go this route, watch out for these:
1. I wrapped the package up to “install with reboot”, sometimes it obeyed.. sometimes it didn’t. Sometimes it waited for the user to log on then unceremoniously dumped them and booted.
2. Uninstall password.. some of our SAV9 locations were originally deployed requiring a password for uninstall. The GPO was defeated by this.. Anyone have a work around out there BTW?
3. No support whatsoever, despite just signing the big contract when I contacted support on this as soon as I mentioned GPO I was read the party line that it is a MS product and no support was offered on my reboot issues.
4. We had dozens of busted ms clients out there so a lot of the troubleshooting involved removing ms client, removing from the domain.. re-installing, re-adding, but that isn’t AV related.
5. I was astounded by the number of clients we had that either didn’t have IE5 installed or the installer, watch out for that.
The skilled individuals that shut their machine down in the middle of it sometimes need a cleanwipe but I suspect the majority just received the package again the next reboot and we never heard from them.
Anyone else out there manage to do this any smoother them me? I would love to hear the story!
All said and done, for the 1300 machines we did the helpdesk received very few calls.. the problems came after when it started discovering items ignored for years.