Appendix B: Running CommonScenarios.msi

Applies To: Windows Server 2003 with SP1

This white paper comes with a number of supporting files – spreadsheets, GPO backups, and HTML-based Group Policy reports. These are installed by the installation package CommonScenarios.msi.

Note

You can download the CommonScenarios.msi installation package, which includes this document and supporting files, from the Microsoft Download Center.

When you install this package, the files listed in Table 6 are copied into the %programfiles%\Microsoft\CommonScenarios directory and a new menu – Group Policy Common Scenarios – is created on Start/Programs.

Table 6.    Files Installed by CommonScenarios.msi Package

Directory FileName Description

\Documentation

CommonScenariosWS2003.doc

This white paper.

\Documentation

CommonScenariosWS2003.xls

Spreadsheet listing each setting specified for all scenarios.

\Environment

CommonScenarios.xml

File representing sample environment for common scenarios and for use by CreateEnvironmentFromXML script.

\GPO-Backups

[GUID]

One subdirectory for each GPO included in the common scenarios.

\GPO-Reports

[GPO Name].htm

HTML-based report for each GPO (generated from GPMC).

\Scripts

CreateCommonScenarios.cmd

Command file to install a sample OU structure, create the common scenarios GPOs, and link GPOs.