GPO Deployment hangs at "Installing Managed Software"?
843798Mar 30 2010 — edited Jun 1 2010As subject basically.
I'm looking at deploying Java 6 Update 18 via Group Policy.
Doesn't seem there should be much more to it than assigning the MSI to the GPO object, however whilst it works on most machines, on some (so far I've only experience it on XP) they simply hang at the "Installing Managed Software" window and never get as far as CTRL-ALT-DEL.
If I run psexec against a machine in this state, I can see (and end using pskill) a process along the lines of msix.tmp and I can then logon to the machine.
At this point I can quite happily install the JRE by either double-clicking the MSI directly, or by using "msiexec /i pathto.msi /quiet" from a command prompt.
I've seen quite a few reports of this problem on various forums/blogs/tech sites, but I've not seen a solution (the above isn't honestly viable once you get beyond a few machines).
Any suggestions would be most welcome, thanks.