Group Policy - Installs Software Every Restart

[Miscbrah]

Evening all, have a weird one. Been an issue for a little while, hoped W11 would just make it go away but it didn't!

 

Software deployed by Group Policy reinstalls every restart. As in each time it goes through all the packages and restarts are kinda painfully long. Only seems to be student IT suite. Never did get to the bottom of it but I'd defo like to!

 

Anyone seen this before/solve this before?

[ICT-Joe]

How did you assign the software using GPO -  was it an MSI or did you write a custom script to install the software? 

[mikes]

I had this with SCCM deployed software, I hadn't scripted the detection properly - so it was detecting the software as not present then trying to install it.  I think I even had this with an MSI package one time that should handle detections but it was trying to install it every boot anyway, ended up just unallocating it

[TechMonkey]

As mikes says, it will be an install detection issue. Odd that it is every single package every single time.

Best bet is to hit the logs and see if there is an error after install. Also check out what the rule is to validate the install and manually follow that rule.

[ICT-Joe]

Had the same issue as mikes here when trying to install Python via a batch file - it would install and then uninstall every reboot. In the end, I had to add a line as follows:

 

if exist "c:\Program Files\Python" exit

Hope this helps!

Edited September 19, 2025 by ICT-Joe

[thimon]

Ditched GPO software install, now fully via PDQ. 

[Miscbrah]

Thanks everyone - yeah digging through logs I think best at this point. These all fully "vanilla" MSIs through GP, no scripting. The software I do script to install though (set flags myself) seem to work ok.

Edited September 22, 2025 by Miscbrah