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I have plan to deploy Oracle Java (JRE) &nbsp;through Active Directory group policy computer assignment. &nbsp;I created the .msi file, a have modified the property table of msi file to disable automatic updates. I have a few questions i need to understand: <br />
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1. What happens if computer already have software installed? For example the software has been previously manually installed?<br />
2. How can i be certain that this software is not installed on every restart (on every GPO policy execution)? <br />
3. Is there a way to monitor the progress of deployment (some sort of log file with all installations?) 
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I have plan to deploy Oracle Java (JRE)  through Active Directory group policy computer assignment.  I created the .msi file, a have modified the property table of msi file to disable automatic updates. I have a few questions i need to understand: 


1. What happens if computer already have software installed? For example the software has been previously manually installed?
2. How can i be certain that this software is not installed on every restart (on every GPO policy execution)? 
3. Is there a way to monitor the progress of deployment (some sort of log file with all installations?) 

How to monitor the deployment of a software through Active directory install

Active Directory (AD) is a Microsoft brand for identity-related capabilities. In the on-premises world, Windows Server AD provides a set of identity capabilities and services, and is hugely popular (88% of Fortune 1000 and 95% of enterprises use AD). This topic includes all things Active Directory including DNS, Group Policy, DFS, troubleshooting, ADFS, and all other topics under the Microsoft AD and identity umbrella.

Active Directory

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.

Windows Server 2008

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).