Deploying Your Configuration

Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2

When you are completely satisfied with the results of your configuration, and have taken the time to back up the server, proceed to deploying the managed solution in your production environment. Be prepared to answer user questions regarding RUP and redirected folders. Explain disk quotas to users, so that they know what to do if they need additional shared storage space.

If the LAN that you created will be your new production environment, start migrating your users over to the LAN. If you have previous Windows-based clients and want to migrate existing user settings to the new environment, see "Migration of User State" in this book. You can scale this production network as your organization grows.

If this LAN will be a test environment, you can now back up your GPOs and restore them to your production environment. You can use the knowledge that you gained here to create new management solutions in that environment.

Deployment of a management solution is never a one-stop process. As your environment grows and changes, you will need to make adjustments in accommodation. The environment that this chapter develops is intended to give you the basic structure that will ease system management responsibilities as well as scale out to future demands.