Microsoft® Windows® Desktop Deployment Resource Kit

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There are three references that are absolutely necessary when deploying Windows XP Professional and Office 2003 Editions. This book refers to them frequently, in almost every chapter, and you should get to know them well:

• Windows XP Professional Deployment Tools. These tools are on the Windows XP Professional distribution CD in the Support\Tools folder. They’re in the Deploy.cab file, which you can open in Microsoft Windows Explorer to extract its contents. Aside from the tools it provides, it includes an outstanding set of documentation, "Microsoft Windows Corporate Deployment Tools User’s Guide," including reference material for various deployment files such as unattended-setup answer files. This documentation is in Deploy.chm ...