Installation of K2 View Flow via Group Policy

Distributing packages via Group Policy can be done on Computer or User levels. On a Computer level the software can be installed per computer on your domain. However, you would then need to assign rights for each computer. We recommend that you use the User level and create a group of the users that will require the installation. The following instructions apply to a user level If you wish to use the computer level please refer to the links at the bottom of this topic.

Creating a Group for the View Flow Users

Create an AD Group that contains all the users that will require access to the view flow. This group will be referred to as K2ViewFlowUsers in this article.

Extracting the View Flow MSI and creating a shared folder

Find the K2ViewflowDeployer.cab and extract it to a folder on the Domain controller server.

This file is located in one of the two places below:

MOSS/WS install location:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\K2\TaskList\K2ViewflowDeployer.cab
From a Workspace install location:
C:\Program Files\K2 blackpearl\WorkSpace\Site\TaskListControl\K2ViewflowDeployer.cab

Share this folder and give read access to the K2ViewFlowUsers group. Also modify the security settings on this folder and give read access to the K2ViewFlowUsers group.

Creating a Group Policy Object (GPO) and assigning the K2 View Flow Software installation package

The policy will take time to update on the clients. If you wish to fast track this you can run the gpupdate /force command on the client

Useful Links

Creating a group policy object (Window Server 2008)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc947817(WS.10).aspx

Troubleshooting Event Log entries relating to Group policy deployment
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc727267(WS.10).aspx

	Click on the Start button, select Administrative Tools and then select Group Policy Management
	Right-click your domain name in the console tree and Create a GPO in this domain and Link it here…
	Type in a name for example “K2ViewFlowGPO” and select (none) for the Source Starter GPO
	Expand Group Policy Objects and right click on the GPO you just created
	Under GPO Status select “All Settings Disabled”
	On the right panel under Security Filtering Add the K2ViewFlowUsers group
	Right click the GPO again and click Edit
	Under User Configuration expand Policies
	Expand Software Settings
	Right Click Software installation
	Click New
	Click Package
	Type in the UNC path of the share created under Extracting the View Flow MSI and creating a shared folder
	Select K2ViewFlow
	Choose Assigned
	On the right panel right click the K2 View Flow item
	Click the Deployment Tab
	Check the box stating Install this application at logon
	Select Basic under Installation user interface options
	Close the Group Policy Management Editor window
	Under Group Policy Objects in Group Policy Management
	Right Click the GPO
	Under GPO Status select “Enabled”