Problems and Benefits

Is your organization one of the many who are considering leveraging Group Policy for software deployment? Perhaps you are new to group policy and want to explore the capabilities for software distribution. Perhaps your organization is currently using active directory and group policy for software deployment today, and you wish to add functionality. Finally, your organization may be using a software deployment tool that does not leverage your investment in active directory or simply does not provide the functionality and automation you require.

In any of the above scenarios, Special Operations Deploy is an ideal solution fit. With today’s active directory powered Windows networks, you already have the basis for an effective infrastructure management tool built in to the operating system through group policy. Distributing software via group policy provides a basic deployment solution and is in use by many organizations. However, software deployment using group policy alone does present some inherent limitations such as;