Problem with Chrome GPO Deployment

[fiza]

We started deploying Chrome via Group policy about 2 years ago. Everything was running fine. We pushed out new versions via GPO when needed. The server that held the deployment share has been decommissioned and unfortunately the share plus contents wiped. I made the mistake of removing the Software Installs from Group Policy and selecting 'Immediately uninstall the software from users and computers'. I set up a new share on a new server to deploy Chrome but it fails each time. If I try to deploy it manually it stops and asks for the deployment path of the old server! I have put the old server back online but as the old contents are no longer there it still looks for the old path. I have recreated the path and put a copy of chrome in there but when the installer runs it says its not a valid installation package for Google Chrome.

 

I need to get the new version of Chrome installed asap but get the installer to not search for old versions. Any command line switches I can use to force an install?

[pete]

Does calling

msiexec /x {ChomeMSI-ID-GoesHere} /qn 

to remove the installed version also fall over with "can't find install source (or similar)"?

 

I suspect it probably does (from what I can remember when I ran into this in the past).

[fiza]

Does calling

msiexec /x {ChomeMSI-ID-GoesHere} /qn 

to remove the installed version also fall over with "can't find install source (or similar)"?

 

I suspect it probably does (from what I can remember when I ran into this in the past).

 

Problem is that it seems to be looking for an old version on systems that didnt have it installed in the first place. I have just rebuilt some machines with our image on. The image doesnt have Chrome installed. The machines are in the same OU as the Chrome deployment GPO. I would have thought that if the install didnt exist then it wouldnt try to uninstall an older version. Very confusing!

[fiza]

*bump* any ideas on this issue?

[Duke5A]

I had this exact issue a couple weeks ago. What is wants is the location of the MSI used to install the previous version. I don't know why it wants this and I didn't have a crusty version of Chrome laying around so I deleted its install entry out of the registry and that seemed to fix it. It'll be one of two places:

 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{Software GUID}

 

or

 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{Software GUID}

 

This depends if it is the 64bit version of Chrome and if Windows is 64bit. I'm on Win7 x64 and using the 32bit version of Chrome, so my entry was under the first key.

 

GUIDs will look like:

{BED0D2F3-7407-3B43-A48F-6C33BC3D5DAD}

 

These change for the installed version of software you have. Just search for Chrome and delete the entire key at the GUID level. The new installer should install just fine.