Carbon Black Cloud: Can GPO Software Installation Deploy the Sensor Without Reboot?

Products

• Carbon Black Cloud Endpoint Standard (formerly Cb Defense)

Issue/Introduction

Can GPO Software Installation deploy the Sensor without Reboot?

Environment

• Carbon Black Cloud Console: All Versions
• Carbon Black Cloud Sensor: All Versions
• Microsoft Windows: All Supported Versions
• Group Policy Object Editor

Resolution

• No this is not possible using GPO Software Installation. This is a limitation of Microsoft.
• As a workaround it may be possible to create a custom script which is configured to install the sensor and deploy it via GPO Scheduled Task

Additional Information

• At this time Carbon Black does not provide a custom script which has been tested and qualified for use in deploying sensors using GPO scheduled task.
• Any custom scripts created for this purpose will need to be supported and maintained by the script creator.