Log files for group policy application deployment

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Published on 2010-03-26T03:23:20Z Indexed on 2010/03/26 3:33 UTC
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I'm looking into using group policy to deploy a couple of applications. I want to have the log of each installation written to a shared folder on a file server for tracking purposes.

I can create the log if I pass the appropriate parameters. For example: msiexec /i Package.msi /l*vx c:\Package.log

However using group policy for the deployment, you can't pass any parameters to the installation file.

Is there anyway to specify the log file location in the process of creating the msi package?

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