Question about publishing non-msi applications

Hello Everyone,

I have a question regarding publishing non-msi applications. Publishing applications that do not use an MSI package for installation require the creation of a .zap file and the policies must be created as a user setting and not a computer setting.

Basically the problem I had is that the user need at least read access to the installer’s location but I don’t want to give them those kind of permissions.

My question is this: Is there any way around this? Perhaps some setting that would kick off the install as a different user.

(by the way, this is a windows 2003/xp environment)