Daylight Savings Time for Outlook calendar

[tekmann33]

I am a Systems technician for a small company and I am somewhat of a Newbie when it comes to Microsoft networks (My experience is in Linux) so let me apologize in advance for any silly questions or if this question was not posted to the right forum.

This organization has about 40 XP pro service pack 2 clients and a Windows 2003 domain controller that manages them. I have been asked to implement Microsoft's Daylight Savings patch, tzmove.exe to all clients that use Outlook calendar appointments. We do not have an Exchange Server but use our Web Server as a POP3.

As a Domain Administrator, I can run this executable (tzmove.exe) on my personal machine without a problem. It will update my appointments in my Outlook calendar by adjusting the time accordingly without a hitch. I save this executable on a shared folder that is accessible to all users on the network so they can run it. However, when an ordinary user executes it, the executable stops and says "The installation of the package failed."

I tried adjusting the permissions on the executable to all all users to run it, but I still received the same message.

All of our users are "Domain Users" while I am a "Domain Admin" for our network. I created a test user for the network and only when I escalated his privledges to a Domain Admin was he able to run the Outlook update executable.

Obviously, I do not want to make all users a Domain Administrator just to adjust Outlook calendars.

Is there a way to grant temporary "Install priveledges" to the Domain Users just so I can do these updates?

The Senor Systems Technician is on vacation, and this is not a mission critical issue, but I would like to address it if I could.

Any input would be appreciated.

[cluberti]

The tool itself needs admin privs to install, but regular users should be able to run it once installed from the install location ("\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office 12\Office Outlook Time Zone Data Update Tool\" for Office 2003). Since you say you've got AD, install it via a computer configuration container Software Installation (intellimirror) policies from a GPO that applies to client machines.