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Ed Johnson

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Message 4845 - Posted: 26 Jun 2006, 22:27:48 UTC

When using Active Directory Deployment of Boinc,
is there a way for me to select the project(s) that the Boinc installation will run?

As far as I can tell, I still have to go to each machine and manually set a project. That defeats much of the purpose of AD deployment.

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Ed
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Message 4846 - Posted: 27 Jun 2006, 6:48:32 UTC

Yes you can it invovles copying the account*.xml file(s) to the target computers. Wiki page on installer.
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Message 4852 - Posted: 27 Jun 2006, 20:25:52 UTC - in response to Message 4846.  

Thanks. I've never done a transform before. Any chance someone could post an example of how to use MS Orca to add an account_*.xml file to the deployment?

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Message 4864 - Posted: 29 Jun 2006, 17:40:20 UTC

Ed,

The Lazy Slug of WCG fame has written a pretty good guide on deploying BOINC via AD.

The Lazy Slug's Guide To Deploying BOINC

He also has posted a VB Script to automate the process of creating an MST file.

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Message 4866 - Posted: 29 Jun 2006, 20:56:40 UTC - in response to Message 4864.  
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Perfect!
Thank you.

I highly suggest that this link be added to the official Boinc Windows Installer pages. I wish I had it months ago.

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/win_install.php
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/win_deploy.php
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