{"id":1328,"date":"2013-03-15T12:56:02","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T12:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2016-06-14T09:39:36","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T08:39:36","slug":"deploying-skype-6-3-via-gpo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=1328","title":{"rendered":"Deploying Skype 6.3 to the Enterprise via GPO"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a while now Skype have offered a MSI, a ADM template and a nifty little guide on Enterprise Deployment considerations but so far I haven’t found a decent guide which shows how to bring all of these components together to get Skype out there on your client PCs.<\/p>\n

In this guide I will be looking to, deploy Skype 6.3 to my clients using GPO\/MSI<\/strong>, remove the desktop shortcut<\/strong>, remove its ability to auto launch on login<\/strong>, restrict access to file transfers<\/strong>, put in proxy settings<\/strong> and prevent automated updates<\/strong> (among a few other things that can be done through GPO).<\/p>\n

A few things you will need<\/p>\n

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  1. A read of the Enterprise Deployment guide (its from 2010 but is still valid) – http:\/\/www.skype.com\/go\/administrators.guide<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. The MSI – http:\/\/www.skype.com\/go\/getskype-msi<\/a> (updated May 2016)<\/li>\n
  3. The ADM template (right click save target as) – http:\/\/download.skype.com\/share\/security\/Skype-v1.7.adm<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. The Orca tool MSI editor tool (part of the Windows 7 SDK) – a guide to installing it can be found here https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=1368<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    After a few requests the transform file (pre created as specified above) is now available in the ZIP file below<\/p>\n

    \"\"  Skype 6 Transform<\/a><\/strong> (986 bytes, 3,124 hits)<\/p>\n

    The screen shot sequence below shows how to get everything rolling.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    For a while now Skype have offered a MSI, a ADM template and a nifty little guide on Enterprise Deployment considerations but so far I haven’t found a decent guide which shows how to bring all of these components together to get Skype out there on your client PCs. In this guide I will be looking to, deploy Skype 6.3… Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[72,142,173],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-application-deployment","tag-group-policy","tag-skype"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9362,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions\/9362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}