Need to change MSI source location

[jwmac]

I am in the process of reformating and reloading Windows on one of my
servers. On this server is a share that one of my group policies is using
for a software installation.

My question is: how can I change the source location for Software
Installations without recreating the policy and without redeploying? I'm
trying to avoid a situation where the app is redeployed to most of my users.
I will also be consolidating all of my MSI's into one central share in the
coming weeks and will need to change all sources in each policies to point to
this new location.

I assume there has to be a simple way to do this as this as I would think
this is a fairly common thing.

As always, all help is appreciated. Thanks

[Florian Frommherz [MVP]]

Howdie!

Post by jwmac
I am in the process of reformating and reloading Windows on one of my
servers. On this server is a share that one of my group policies is using
for a software installation.
My question is: how can I change the source location for Software
Installations without recreating the policy and without redeploying? I'm
trying to avoid a situation where the app is redeployed to most of my users.
I will also be consolidating all of my MSI's into one central share in the
coming weeks and will need to change all sources in each policies to point to
this new location.

You can't in a supported way. There's an unsupported method Mark wrote
up in his blog:
http://gpupdate.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!95A4CDC36943279A!120.entry

*IF* you're going to chance the distribution point of deployed software
anyway, think about implementing DFS.

Cheers,
Florian

[jwmac]

Thanks sir!

Post by Florian Frommherz [MVP]
Howdie!

Post by jwmac
I am in the process of reformating and reloading Windows on one of my
servers. On this server is a share that one of my group policies is using
for a software installation.
My question is: how can I change the source location for Software
Installations without recreating the policy and without redeploying? I'm
trying to avoid a situation where the app is redeployed to most of my users.
I will also be consolidating all of my MSI's into one central share in the
coming weeks and will need to change all sources in each policies to point to
this new location.

http://gpupdate.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!95A4CDC36943279A!120.entry
*IF* you're going to chance the distribution point of deployed software
anyway, think about implementing DFS.
Cheers,
Florian
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