I started using GPOs for
deploying software, and ditched it pretty quickly. Too many limitations; the
biggest of them is that it can only install MSI files, not applications
packaged as executables or any other way.
Of course you can create MSI
files yourself with tools such as makemsi, but it’s a pain.
Instead, I am now using WPKG to
deploy quite a lot of software (Adobe Reader, Firefox, Opera, Microsoft Office,
and, yes, bacula-fd) http://wpkg.org/
It works 99% with bacula – the only
problem is that the bacula uninstaller is not completely silent (the dialog “do
you want to remove configuration files” pops up even in silent mode), so
removing bacula is a bit of a pain. Not enough for me to even file a bug
report, though…
From: Gabriel - IP Guys
[mailto:Gabriel AT impactteachers DOT com]
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 6:24 AM
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Subject: [Bacula-users] Install Bacula-FD on windows en masse? (group
policy)
Dear All,
I was wondering if anyone has installed
bacula-fd via group policy. I’ve got a project in front of me to install bacula
on 30 servers as a test. I would be glad to know if anyone has already written
a guide to using bacula in association with ad/gpo for a deployment