Admin Dashboard

Open Group Policy Manager on your Windows Server.

Navigate to the organizational unit(s) where you will deploy Blocksi, right-click the Organizational Unit Name, and select Create a GPO on this domain, and Link it here…. The New GPO window opens.

Type a name for the GPO deployment, such as Blocksi GPO app deployment in the Name text field and click OK.

Right-click the newly created GPO and select Edit from the drop-down menu.

Select a shared folder on your network. If a shared folder does not exist yet, create it under the file path C:/.

Upload the required MSI files to the shared folder. These can include the following:

Right click the shared folder and select Properties from the list. The Properties window opens.

Click the Sharing tab, then click Share… under the Network File and Folder Sharing section. The File Sharing window opens.

Click Add from the File Sharing window, and enter the appropriate Users or Groups. (This includes all users subject to the GPO created for Blocksi.)

Go back to the drop-down list and select the Find people… option. The Select Users and Groups window opens.

Type Administrator in the Enter the object names to select text box and click the Check Names button. A new window opens.

Select the Admin account that controls the Windows server and click OK. You are returned to the Select Users and Groups window.

Click OK. After these steps, the table in the File Sharing window should have the next accounts inside: Administrator, Administrators, and Everyone.

Add permissions for the accounts. Administrators need Read/Write and Owner permissions, and Everyone needs to have Read permission.

Click the Share button to complete the sharing process.

Verify that the sharing process was successful, go to File Explorer, click the search field at the top, and type \\SERVERNAME\SHARED_FOLDER_NAME. See the following example.

In the GPO Management Editor, navigate to User Configuration > Policies > Software Settings and click Software installation.

Right-click Software Installation and select New > Package. The Open window opens.

Navigate to the shared folder you created in the Adding the Application File to a Shared Folder section of this article. Do this by searching for it with the string: \\SERVERNAME\SHARED_FOLDER_NAME. See example below.

Select the Blocksi installation file from the folder and add it to the list.

In the GPO Management Editor, navigate to User Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > All Settings.

Configure/Set the following for the app.

To enable this setting, do the following:

Select Assigned under Deployment type.

Select the Install this application at logon checkbox under Deployment options.

Click the Advanced… button. The Advanced Deployment Options window opens.

Select the Ignore language when deploying this package checkbox.

Open an elevated Command Prompt on a target device.

Run the following command in the prompt: gpupdate /force.

Restart the device. The Blocksi Enterprise agent will install on next boot, and the browser extension will appear in Chrome and/or Edge once the browser is opened.