Hi, The following is a working PowerShell script to deploy Elastic Agent to Windows workstations via Group Policy 'Startup Script'. Group Policy service by default does not include the permission for it to create SymLinks so the PowerShell script adds this privilege to those requested when starting…

Deploy Elastic Agent 8.3.2 via Windows GPO

bbs2web (David Herselman) July 26, 2022, 9:35pm 2

Kept stumbling in to the following post which provided the base structure of the script I hacked together:

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Deploy Elastic Agent 8.3.2 via Windows GPO

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