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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsMark Lucovsky, Michael J. Cherry, Daniel Plastina, Bharat Shah, Debi P. Mishra, David E. Kays, Jr., Markus Horstmann
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A method and system for managing and deploying applications across a computer network by assigning and publishing applications to user and computer policy recipients. Assigned applications are automatically applied via a script to the policy recipients, thereby ensuring that the recipient has an administrator-specified workstation configuration. Assigned applications are advertised so as to appear available to the user, by adding an application shortcut to the start menu, and by populating the machine registry with appropriate application information. Other applications may be published to users, whereby those applications are optionally available for use by users. Published application information is maintained in a centralized store of information on the network. Assigned and published applications may be installed on demand, such as when the application is activated.
In a computer network, a method of deploying a plurality of programs to a policy recipient, comprising, maintaining an association between each program and the policy recipient, at least one association corresponding to a program that is assigned as mandatory for the policy recipient to have on a computer system associated with that policy recipient, and at least one other association corresponding to a program that is published as optional for the policy recipient to have on the computer system associated with that policy recipient, determining a time for deploying each assigned program to the policy recipient and making that program available to the policy recipient at that time, and deploying each published program to the policy recipient when the published program is activated via the computer system.
In a computer network, a method of automatically deploying an assigned program to a policy recipient, comprising, generating a script having information therein corresponding to the assigned program, associating the script with a policy, applying the policy to the policy recipient by processing the script at a computer associated with the policy recipient to advertise the assigned program as available for execution by the policy recipient prior to installation of program code needed to execute the program, wherein the program is installed such that the program is installable on demand in response to a request to execute the program.
In a computer network, a system for deploying programs to policy recipients, comprising, a centralized store of policy objects, at least one of the policy objects having an advertise script associated therewith, the advertise script including program information of at least one program for assigning to policy recipients, and a mechanism for applying policy objects to a policy recipient, wherein at least one of the policy objects applied to that recipient has the advertise script associated therewith, the mechanism processing the script to advertise at least one assigned program to the policy recipient such that the assigned program is advertised as available for execution by the policy recipient prior to installation of program code needed to execute the program.
In a computing environment, a method comprising:
A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions, comprising, maintaining an association between each program of a plurality of programs and a policy recipient, at least one association corresponding to a program that is assigned as mandatory for the policy recipient to have on a computer system associated with that policy recipient, and at least one other association corresponding to a program that is published as optional for the policy recipient to have on the computer system associated with that policy recipient, determining a time for deploying each assigned program to the policy recipient and making that program available to the policy recipient at that time, and deploying each published program to the policy recipient when the published program is activated via the computer system.
A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions, comprising:
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