Is there a way to make software available for remote installation in Windows Server?

Posted by Michael J. Gray on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Michael J. Gray
Published on 2012-09-29T23:48:12Z Indexed on 2012/09/30 3:39 UTC
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I've heard of folks having a sort of "software repository" which contains a database of product keys and then network installation media for operating systems and other Microsoft software, such as Office.

With this, they were then able to join a computer to the domain and grant that user privileges to a set of software and then the client was able to use it either remotely or locally on their machine. I believe it installed from the server on to their local machine.

Does anyone happen to know what this is?

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