This is a weird one. When I go into the Group Policy Management console, none of my Software installation packages are shown when looking at the "Settings" tab:
However, when I go in to edit the Group Policy, all of my installation packages are there:
I noticed it because I'm seeing some strange activity when testing my latest installation packages. My test Windows XP client recently reinstalled all of its assigned packages, even though I made no changes to the machine or the policy. Worse yet, my Windows 7 clients don't seem to be installing any packages at all.
When I run "gpresult /r" on the client machines, it shows they are members of the required security groups needed to get the respective software updates, and it also shows that the relevant Group Policy is being applied. Same if I run Group Policy Modeling in the GP Mgmt Console (policy is being applied). However, if I run rsop.msc on the target machine, it does not list any software installation packages under "Software Settings" even though several have already been installed in the past.
I've been doing this routine task of deploying package updates for years and I could have sworn the packages used to show up in the GP Mgmt Console, but now I'm not so sure! Can someone else check their environment to see if the packages are shown there? Also, any help on why my packages are not installing would be greatly appreciated.
Shaun