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by cbutler

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I'm wondering if anyone has any experience in customizing the add/remove programs menu. I have seen it implemented before where the user opens up add/remove programs, and has a list of programs that you can install from a server. Does anyone have any experience setting something like that up on an NT network? Is it possible?

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by baadil

The answer to your question is simple YES and No.

Yes: You can create package for some customized packageable products, such as Office 2000 and mandatory deploy it with Microsoft SMS. Instead of including the whole package, include only the bare minimum and make the rest install on demand. This works only on software which support install on demand feature, again like Office 2000.

No: It doen not work with all types of software. I believe Windows 2000 can do this natively but not NT.

HTH

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