We have 250 mobile users that do not connect to a domain yet. Our
infrastructure is migrating to AD, but we still are a year or so away. In
the meantime we need to deploy 250 laptops. We have 5 difference version of
the Panasonic CF-29 unit.

Every time we build a new image we need to run through all the GPEDIT.MSC
setting and a few SECPOL.MSC settings. Is it possible to back up all local
group policy and secpol settings that we enabled and deploy them onto another
system?



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Regards,

Samson

Samson <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> We have 250 mobile users that do not connect to a domain yet.

Youch.

> Our
> infrastructure is migrating to AD, but we still are a year or so
> away.

Youch, again. What are they using now? NDS? Anything? Or just a big messy
workgroup config?

You might see whether http://www.scriptlogic.com/desktop_management.asp will
work without AD.

> In the meantime we need to deploy 250 laptops. We have 5
> difference version of the Panasonic CF-29 unit.
>
> Every time we build a new image we need to run through all the
> GPEDIT.MSC setting and a few SECPOL.MSC settings. Is it possible to
> back up all local group policy and secpol settings that we enabled
> and deploy them onto another system?

If I were deploying that many new computers, I'd be imaging them from a
good/customized image I created.

That said, you can create .adm files to import into the local policies on
your computers - one way I haven't tried (but have read about) involves a
third party freeware tool called NUTS, which has something that converts
..reg (registry file export files) to .adm files. Info is found here:
http://yizhar.mvps.org/

I'd probably post in m.p.windows.group policy for more help. I'd actually be
curious about what will happen to all of this when you do move to AD.

Well we created 5 base images with all of our customizations. Problem is
every so often we get a new model of the CF-29. So far we have an ET, CT,
HT, LT and recently an NT version. We are ordering a few hundred more, but
Panasonic appears to cycle through models frequently.

I will try the links you suggested...as far as the new group
m.p.windows.group policy I will take a look.


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Regards,

Samson


"Samson" wrote:

> We have 250 mobile users that do not connect to a domain yet. Our
> infrastructure is migrating to AD, but we still are a year or so away. In
> the meantime we need to deploy 250 laptops. We have 5 difference version of
> the Panasonic CF-29 unit.
>
> Every time we build a new image we need to run through all the GPEDIT.MSC
> setting and a few SECPOL.MSC settings. Is it possible to back up all local
> group policy and secpol settings that we enabled and deploy them onto another
> system?
>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Samson