Not possible to mass deploy. App gets installed to appdata folder rather than program files. Is this a bug?

Not possible to mass deploy. App gets installed to appdata folder rather than program files. Is this a bug?


We have a problem deploying the ZohoWorkDrive.msi installation file for our windows users.

It seems the app installs to the folder:
c:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\ZohoWorkDrive
and then places a shortcut to this path on the desktop for all users.

So if we give say "Jane" admin rights to install it, then "Billy" logs in the shortcut on the desktop wont work as Billy has no access to Janes profile. 

1. Why does it not install to C:\program files\ZohoWorkDrive rather than c:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\ZohoWorkDrive?

2. This also means we cannot use automated tools to deploy this as if we use traditional  Windows deployment tools (SCCM, GPOs) it will be deployed as the SYSTEM user and the desktop shortcut will not work as the deployed to folder is not accessible.

3. If we try to change the SCCM or GPO to deploy using the user's profile rather than SYSTEM, this also won't install as the users do not have admin rights on their PC's.

Have you any trick we can use to deploy this to our users other than manually going around to each one and installing it for them?(!)

It seems to me this is a bug in the installler and you need to either
a) make it install to program files if admin rights are needed
or
b) if you really need to use the app data folder then don't require admin rights for the installation msi to run

Thank you.





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