Administrators are needed to install, but I have an application that I need deployed on all my workstations. The application itself is really an update.

When the user opens the program, it prompts for an upgrade; they click upgrade now, and then stops because they are not an administrator?

Is there anyplace where I can specify that if the filename = xxx.exe or whatever, let it be installed under elevated privileges?

how many users we talking about here? you could give them local admin rights, no effects on domain

If it's an .msi, you can change .msi installers to always install with elevated rights (regardless of who's logged on) - but the change needs to be made in both the Computer and User trees of the GPO under the Windows Installer policy folder. Otherwise, you'll need to figure out which registry keys and file folders the users will need write access to and grant those permissions via GPO (yuck), or make them local admins on their boxes temporarily (also yuck).

Edited December 4, 200520 yr by cluberti