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December 10th 08, 10:37 PM
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Install application via package that includes Admin credentials
Hello. I have 14 users in different parts of the U.S. all running Vista
Business. I have configured their Administrator accounts with a password which they do not know, so they run their machines as-is and cannot install anything. Here's my problem - I need to install PowerPoint Viewer on all the machines, but that would require me telling them the Administrator password. Can I deliver the ppt viewer app to them in some kind of "package" in which I could include the Administrator credentials? In other words, the "package" would run the install and supply the Administrator credentials when appropriate. Any thoughts, comments, or suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. 
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December 10th 08, 11:20 PM
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Install application via package that includes Admin credentials
Hello,
You might consider using a tool such as psexec to remotely start the installation process. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../bb897553.aspx - JB "Don" wrote in message ... Hello. I have 14 users in different parts of the U.S. all running Vista Business. I have configured their Administrator accounts with a password which they do not know, so they run their machines as-is and cannot install anything. Here's my problem - I need to install PowerPoint Viewer on all the machines, but that would require me telling them the Administrator password. Can I deliver the ppt viewer app to them in some kind of "package" in which I could include the Administrator credentials? In other words, the "package" would run the install and supply the Administrator credentials when appropriate. Any thoughts, comments, or suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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December 11th 08, 02:24 PM
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Install application via package that includes Admin credential
Looks interesting, but I would like to just send them a self-contained
package that would install the app without my real-time intervention. Any other thoughts? "Jimmy Brush" wrote: Hello, You might consider using a tool such as psexec to remotely start the installation process. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../bb897553.aspx - JB "Don" wrote in message ... Hello. I have 14 users in different parts of the U.S. all running Vista Business. I have configured their Administrator accounts with a password which they do not know, so they run their machines as-is and cannot install anything. Here's my problem - I need to install PowerPoint Viewer on all the machines, but that would require me telling them the Administrator password. Can I deliver the ppt viewer app to them in some kind of "package" in which I could include the Administrator credentials? In other words, the "package" would run the install and supply the Administrator credentials when appropriate. Any thoughts, comments, or suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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December 11th 08, 11:06 PM
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Install application via package that includes Admin credential
If your computers are all on a domain (which I assumed they were not), then
this would be possible. However, I cannot think of a secure way of doing EXACTLY what you want in a non-domain environment. "Don" wrote in message news  Looks interesting, but I would like to just send them a self-contained package that would install the app without my real-time intervention. Any other thoughts? "Jimmy Brush" wrote: Hello, You might consider using a tool such as psexec to remotely start the installation process. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../bb897553.aspx - JB "Don" wrote in message ... Hello. I have 14 users in different parts of the U.S. all running Vista Business. I have configured their Administrator accounts with a password which they do not know, so they run their machines as-is and cannot install anything. Here's my problem - I need to install PowerPoint Viewer on all the machines, but that would require me telling them the Administrator password. Can I deliver the ppt viewer app to them in some kind of "package" in which I could include the Administrator credentials? In other words, the "package" would run the install and supply the Administrator credentials when appropriate. Any thoughts, comments, or suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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