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Deploying COM Object in Active Directory [Solved]

bowenbowen Sup?Registered User regular
edited April 2010 in Help / Advice Forum
Does anyone know how I can deploy and register a COM object in AD?

I've got a COM object that I've got to deploy to all of the domain and I'm really not looking forward to having to do it manually.

not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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  • PirateJonPirateJon Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    You have that in an exported EXE right? That's step one. Step two is push it out via AD's software distribution.

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  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Hmm, the project was given to us is a DLL. I should be able to get an EXE from it though.

    That's the easy part, the hard part is the actual process of pushing it out. How do I do that, exactly?

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  • PirateJonPirateJon Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Typically when I was dealing with COM/DCOM I'd get a package from the dev's off their production servers to install on the clients. Like so. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc750201.aspx

    Once you have that exe package then it's the software distribution time. I have had issues with bighuge apps via AD (office, I'm looking at you) but most stuff works ok.
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816102
    Although if you have SMS/SCM or some other software for patches you could use that as well. Or log in scripts.

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  • PirateJonPirateJon Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Wait, are you just talking about registering a single DLL?

    Add regsvr32 <dllname> to the log on script and call it a day. Might need runas if the dudes aren't local admins.

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  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Thanks Jon, I'll see if that fixes it. Yeah it's just a single DLL that needs to be accessed via COM from a utility.

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  • PirateJonPirateJon Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    anytime my admin brother. couple of gotchas in that... I've had to map drives to the spot with the DLL/EXE before. off the tops:

    net use w: \\server\dllpath
    regsvr32 /s DLL.DLL (might need runas here)
    net use w: \\server\dllpath /delete

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  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    This worked Jon, thanks.

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  • RuckusRuckus Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    PirateJon wrote: »
    anytime my admin brother. couple of gotchas in that... I've had to map drives to the spot with the DLL/EXE before. off the tops:

    net use w: \\server\dllpath
    regsvr32 /s DLL.DLL (might need runas here)
    net use w: \\server\dllpath /delete

    You probably don't need to runas, I think logon scripted actions already run as SYSTEM processes.

    [edit] Nope, I was wrong, logon/logoff script run with User credentials, Startup and Shutdown scripts run with Computer object credentials.

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