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Installation across a network

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This function requires O&O Syspectr Enterprise or a higher edition. Compare the editions

For companies, O&O Syspectr provides a personalized MSI file that you can use to install O&O Syspectr automatically on your Windows systems – for example with group policies, Microsoft Intune or Configuration Manager.

O&O Syspectr must be installed on every computer you want to manage. There are two ways to do this:

  1. Manual installation on the computer with the installation file (EXE, or MSI with Enterprise or higher)
  2. Automatic rollout of the MSI file, for example with the group policies of Windows Active Directory

After the installation, the user does not need to do anything else. Updates and new modules are installed automatically by the O&O LiveUpdate service of O&O Syspectr.

Deploy O&O Syspectr using group policies​

The following steps describe how to roll out O&O Syspectr with group policies.

Requirements​

  1. You use Windows Active Directory (AD).
  2. The computers on which you want to install O&O Syspectr are members of the domain, and the permissions for software installation via group policy are in place. For details, see the Microsoft article “Open Group Policy Software Installation”.
  3. You have downloaded your personalized MSI file from your O&O Syspectr account: in your account, go to Add computer and select the MSI file.
  4. Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8 is installed on the target computers. Current versions of Windows include it; otherwise you can get it from Microsoft.

Do not rename the MSI file! O&O Syspectr uses its name to add the computers to your account automatically.

Create the group policy for O&O Syspectr​

  1. Open the Group Policy Management console (gpmc.msc). GPM1

  2. Create a new group policy object for your domain and give it a name, for example “Syspectr GPO”. GPM2

  3. Select the policy and click Edit. The Group Policy Management Editor opens. GPM3

  4. In the Group Policy Management Editor, select Computer Configuration > Policies > Software Settings > Software installation. GPM4

  5. Right-click Software installation, select New > Package… and enter the network path of the O&O Syspectr MSI file. The computers must be able to read the file from this path. GPM5

Now link the group policy to the computers on which you want to install O&O Syspectr: right-click the organizational unit that contains the computers, select Link an Existing GPO… and select the group policy you created (in our example, “Syspectr GPO”). O&O Syspectr is then installed automatically the next time the computers start, and you can manage them in your account.

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