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You would need to use a security group, assuming that your purpose is to limit the software installation to that group of computers. Also, in setting up the group policy, you need to be sure that you change the security settings on the policy itself to specify that security group as being the only group able to run the group policy. This setting is on the <b>Scope</b> tab when looking at the group policy in the GPMC, under <b>Security Filtering</b>.
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You would need to use a security group, assuming that your purpose is to limit the software installation to that group of computers. Also, in setting up the group policy, you need to be sure that you change the security settings on the policy itself to specify that security group as being the only group able to run the group policy. This setting is on the Scope tab when looking at the group policy in the GPMC, under Security Filtering.

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Just to clarify, the group policy is on the OU, and the only member of the OU is the security group with members to be computers on which this software should be installed.<br />
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The computer objects themselves are contained in other OUs.<br />
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Would you still say this should work?
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Just to clarify, the group policy is on the OU, and the only member of the OU is the security group with members to be computers on which this software should be installed.

The computer objects themselves are contained in other OUs.

Would you still say this should work?

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I would like to distribute a package using group policy to a group of computers.<br />
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Can I set the policy on an organizational unit which contains a group whose members are the computers I want the software installed upon? &nbsp;If so, should it be a security group or distribution group and what other considerations might there be?<br />
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Windows 2003 Server.
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I would like to distribute a package using group policy to a group of computers.

Can I set the policy on an organizational unit which contains a group whose members are the computers I want the software installed upon?  If so, should it be a security group or distribution group and what other considerations might there be?

Windows 2003 Server.

active directory group policy software installation

Windows 2000 is an operating system for use on both client and server computers. It is the successor to Windows NT 4.0, and is the last version of Microsoft Windows to display the "Windows NT" designation. Four editions of Windows 2000 were released (Professional, Server, Advanced Server, and Datacenter Server) that shared a core set of features, including many system utilities such as the Microsoft Management Console. All versions of the operating system support NTFS 3.0, Encrypting File System, as well as basic and dynamic disk storage. The Windows 2000 Server family includes support for Active Directory services, Distributed File System and fault-redundant storage volumes.