Setting Up The Group Policy Object - ACRONIS BACKUP AND RECOVERY 10 ADVANCED SERVER VIRTUAL EDITION - INSTALLATION UPDATE 3 Installation Manual

9. Share the folder where you placed the installation packages. Make sure that domain users can
access the shared folder—for example, by leaving the default sharing settings for Everyone.
Step 2: Configuring the agent's installation package
Important: Skip this step when reinstalling or updating the agent.
You need to configure the agent's installation package by running the configuration script, which is
installed along with the management console. By default, the script is located in the folder
%ProgramFiles%\Acronis\BackupAndRecoveryConsole. If the management console is installed on a
different machine, you can simply copy the configuration script from that machine.
The configuration script creates a transform (also known as a modification, a modification file, or an
.mst file) for the installation package.
1. In the Start menu, click Run, and then type: cmd
2. Click OK.
3. Change the current folder to the one where the configuration script mst_gen.vbs is located, by
running commands such as:
C:
cd "C:\Program Files\Acronis\BackupAndRecoveryConsole"
4. Run the configuration script.
For example, the following command creates a transform for the file
D:\Acronis\Acronis\AgentWindows.msi and uses licenses for the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10
Advanced Server edition from the license server installed on mylicensesrv; the agent will run
under the user account mydomain\AgentUser:
mst_gen.vbs /msi_path D:\Acronis\AgentWindows.msi /license_server mylicensesrv
/product AS /account mydomain\AgentUser MyPassWd
Note: You must include a complete path to the installation package, even if the package is in the same
folder as the configuration script.
For the complete syntax of the configuration script, see Configuration script parameters (p. 23).
The agent's installation package is ready for deployment. You now need to create a Group Policy
object, as described in Setting up the Group Policy object (p. 26).
2.5.2

Setting up the Group Policy object

Use this procedure to set up a Group Policy object (GPO) for agent deployment in the entire domain
or in its organizational unit. The agent will be installed on each machine which is a member of the
domain or the organizational unit immediately after Windows starts on that machine.
Prerequisites

You must be logged on to the domain controller as a domain administrator; if the domain has
more than one domain controller, log on to any of them as a domain administrator.

If you are planning to deploy the agent in an organizational unit, make sure that the
organizational unit exists in the domain.

Make sure that you have completed the steps described in Preparing the agent's deployment (p.
25).
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