How bad idea it is put a .exe directly on netlogon and let it replicate ?

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I need to deploy a .vbs script that does "wshShell.Run "\\mylittleapp.exe, True, 2" across the organization. Is it OK drop mylttleapp.lexe directly onto%logonserver%\netlogon share and let DC's replicate that to all my sites ?

Then clients would run the script and "\\mylittleapp.exe" (0.5MB) would be locally to the site, rather than having clients accessing mycentralserver across the WAN. What I am trying to do is avoid pointing 2,000 clients to a central server and instead letting clients go to mylittleapp.exe that is now stored on netlogon shares.

Please advise.
 
it sounds like a good idea to make use of the NETLOGON DFS share to replicate files
on remote sites

just use \\%LOGONSERVER%\NETLOGON\mylittleapp.exe to run the exe

you can also make use of Script policies in a GPO, since SYSVOL is also replicated on
each DC (more "Windows 2000-oriented")

go for it !
 
It will work in a pinvh but the NetLogon replication is for backward
compatabilitgy and should be avoided if possable. Making it a habbit will
increase the amount of data there is to replicate and you will eventually
have problems like replication starting and not finishing before it comes
time to start again. Once would be OK but I suggest not making this a habbit
because it is convenient.


Marlon Brown said:
I need to deploy a .vbs script that does "wshShell.Run "\\mylittleapp.exe,
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True, 2" across the organization. Is it OK drop mylttleapp.lexe directly
onto%logonserver%\netlogon share and let DC's replicate that to all my sites
?
Then clients would run the script and "\\mylittleapp.exe" (0.5MB) would be
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locally to the site, rather than having clients accessing mycentralserver
across the WAN. What I am trying to do is avoid pointing 2,000 clients to a
central server and instead letting clients go to mylittleapp.exe that is now
stored on netlogon shares.
 
circa Fri, 24 Oct 2003 10:26:08 -0700, in
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TWFybG9uIEJyb3du?= ([email protected]) said,
I need to deploy a .vbs script that does "wshShell.Run "\\mylittleapp.exe, True, 2" across the organization. Is it OK drop mylttleapp.lexe directly onto%logonserver%\netlogon share and let DC's replicate that to all my sites ?

Then clients would run the script and "\\mylittleapp.exe" (0.5MB) would be locally to the site, rather than having clients accessing mycentralserver across the WAN. What I am trying to do is avoid pointing 2,000 clients to a central server and instead letting clients go to mylittleapp.exe that is now stored on netlogon shares.

Please advise.
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Are you assigning the script via group policy, or running it
manually?

Laura
 
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