Welcome to Designing a Managed Environment of the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Deployment Kit.

This book provides the foundation you need to understand and deploy Group Policy and its supporting technologies, included within Microsoft Windows Server 2003. The guidance in this book will help you reduce the cost of managing a diverse set of organizational and computing needs, and to centrally manage domain-wide and forest-wide security, servers, computers, and users.

This book contains the following chapters:

Planning a Managed Environment

Designing a Group Policy Infrastructure

Staging Group Policy Deployments

Deploying Security Policy

Migration of User State

Implementing User State Management

Deploying a Managed Software Environment

Deploying a Simple Managed Environment