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Is there a way when making a group policy object to install an MSI that you can have this install run as administrator on the computers?

Trying to run a fix that needs to be run as administrator to install.

Thank you.

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  • You have setup a Computer policy right? You aren't trying to deploy with a User Policy?
    – Zoredache
    Oct 17, 2012 at 20:03
  • I have it under computer configuration, policies, software settings, software installation Oct 17, 2012 at 20:26

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No. It runs as SYSTEM and this behavior cannot be changed. In almost all cases, this is plenty to install any piece of software.

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  • Any suggestions to push something out then that needs to be installed on roughly 500 machines... Oct 17, 2012 at 19:52
  • First of all, are you sure that running it as SYSTEM won't do what you need it to do?
    – MDMarra
    Oct 17, 2012 at 19:58
  • I'm fairly new to this, and this is my first time setting up an MSI for installation for I'm not sure if I am running it as SYSTEM. How do I go about checking that? Oct 17, 2012 at 20:28
  • You can test this by downloading a copy of psexec from the sysinternal tools and running psexec -s msiexec /i c:\path\to\your\file.msi. If it installs correctly this way, you can use GPO Software Deployment.
    – MDMarra
    Oct 17, 2012 at 21:55

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