How to Deploy harmon.ie Classic With Active Directory

This article explains the steps required to remotely deploy harmon.ie Classic via Active Directory, or other desktop management software.

You may also deploy harmon.ie Classic With Microsoft Intune.

Prior to installing the package, you may customize the installation package to set initial SharePoint sites, favorites, and settings to all harmon.ie users. If your organization requires it, you may rebrand harmon.ie with your company’s name and logo.

Read How to Deploy harmon.ie Classic: Step-by-step Admin Guide for a step-by-step tutorial of downloading and installing harmon.ie Classic for a group of people or for the whole organization.

Before harmon.ie Classic can be automatically distributed to client computers or specific users, make sure that the client computer is connected to the domain.

To install harmon.ie Classic on a remote client computer:

  1. Create a Group Policy Object in your domain properties using Active Directory on the server, which will be used to remotely install harmon.ie. In the Security tab of the Group Policy Object’s properties, select the groups that you want to install harmon.ie to.
  2. In the console tree, open your domain’s properties, and from the Group Policy tab, edit the Group Policy Object you created above.
  3. Right-click Computer Configuration > Software Settings > Software Installation and select New > Package.
  4. In the Open dialog box, enter the UNC path to the harmon.ie installation file on a shared network folder. Do not use the Browse button to access the location.
  5. From the Deployment tab, set Deployment type to Assigned, set Installation user interface options to Basic and click OK.
  6. Close the Group Policy snap-in, click OK, and then quit the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in.
  7. When the client computer starts, the managed software package is automatically installed.

More details on how to deploy software using Active Directory are available in the Microsoft knowledge base article Use Group Policy to remotely install software – Windows Server | Microsoft Docs.

When installing, you must use the Basic user interface option.