Auto install/run program when loggging into domain

[realized]

I am trying to run a installation program at login, to upgrade an application i need on all workstations.

The application runs installshield, and needs admin rights to install corectly.

The users are 'limited users'

Is there any way to run a program with a login script so when they login to the domain, it runs this program as ADMIN ?

Limited users can't install programs.

[chilifrei64]

If this is on a domain you could deploy it through group policy, otherwise you could run a batch script and use the runas command.....(not to secure though)

Is this a domain enviroment?

What version OS are you running?

What application are you trying to update?

[realized]

yes we run a domain here..

windows 2003 SBS, group policy's i am newbie at, i know where to modify settings, just sometimes takes me 45min to find the setting i need..

ALL workstations are windows XP

All workstations log into the domain/.

The application i am trying to run is calyx, currently 5.0, need to run the 5.1 update.

The way the application needs to be installed, once i install it on the server, it saves all the settings to a share, from that share i must run "run.exe" from that share to each workstation.

So basicly i need to run \\domaincomputername\calyx\netsetup\run.exe

Edited August 18, 2005 by realized

[chilifrei64]

well without getting too creative.. There is a utility that I use for legacy apps that are virtually undeployable

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PsExec.html

you can run the command from your computer and it will remotely execute the program. The hardest part is getting this psexec onto the remote computer (only a simple batch file) Obviously you will want to practice with this command a little to get used to it but I have used it a number of times with files that are incapable of using msi's and that need administrative privledges

[realized]

No way i can set 'run.exe' to run as an admin all the time? when the user runs calyx, it looks ofr a newer version, if it finds one it runs "run.exe".

If i can set run.exe to always 'run as' an admin with group policies, all i need to do is wait for them to open it up again

[chilifrei64]

OMG.. this is driving me crazy.. I have seen it posted on here soo many times but I cannot think of the name. and search isnt working for me..

EVERYONE: what is the name of that application that is commonly posted on this forum where the program will elevate privilege every time a specific program is run?