This description is nearly similar to the question "How do I replace settings.awc in an AD-domain environment" - there are only minor changes.
Use the following approach for distribution of sites.txt:
Modify the sites.txt of an Norman Ad-Aware installation with the substrings of your choice. Copy the sites.txt-file to a shared directory - be sure to grant read access to the Everyone group and not user groups, because computer accounts have to access the share - not users. Prepare a script-file to use for the ’distribution’ of the file - it could look like this (written on one line):
xcopy \\2kserver\adaware_defs\sites.txt "%programfiles%\Norman\Norman Ad-aware SE Professional\sites.txt" /H /Q /R /U /Y
%programfiles% is an environment variable which points to the Program Files-dir on the system.
The parameters used:
- /H = Copies hidden and system files
- /Q = Does not display file names while copying
- /R = Overwrites Read-only files
- /U = Copies only files that already exist in destination
- /Y = Suppresses prompting to confirm you want to overwrite an existing destination file.
Copy the script-file to the appropriate directory:
\\<domain name>\SysVol\<domain name>\Policies\{<GUID for the Netlogon share of the domain controller OR the OU if Ad-Aware installations are distributed via OU>}\Machine\Scripts\Startup
Open Active Directory - Users and computers, right click the Domain or the OU (if Ad-Aware installations are distributed via OU) and choose Properties -> Group Policy -> naa_install -> Edit. (in this example an OU named SoftDeploy with a GPO named naa_install (Norman Ad-Aware) is used)
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Navigate to Computer Configuration -> Windows Settings -> Scripts (Startup/Shutdown) and choose Startup.
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Click ’Add...’ and browse for the script-file in the Netlogon share -> click Open and OK
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Click OK again and sites.txt is ready for ’distribution’.
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