Microsoft® Windows® Desktop Deployment Resource Kit

Best Practices

The following are best practices for distributing settings with Windows XP Professional:

• Use Group Policy to deploy required settings. The techniques that this chapter describes are for default settings. If you don’t want users to change a particular setting, deploy that setting as a policy.

• Use the formalized techniques before resorting to the techniques in this chapter. Some settings have formalized methods for distributing them. For example, you can configure numerous settings using an unattended-setup answer file. Thus, use the answer file for those settings before resorting to scripting.

• Choose a distribution method with which you are most comfortable. By relying on scripting techniques with which you’re already familiar, you ...