Deciding to Use Customized or Automated Setup

You can choose any combination of methods for configuring custom versions of Windows 95:

• Create custom setup scripts based on the MSBATCH.INF format. Custom setup scripts contain predefined settings for all Setup options, and they can contain instructions for installing additional software.
• Define WRKGRP.INI files to control users' choices for workgroups to join on the network.
• Enable user profiles and create system policies to restrict users' abilities to change the system configuration.

You can use setup scripts to create an automated mandatory installation scheme for installing Windows 95 on multiple computers from Windows 95 source files on servers. The following methods are possible:

• Use a login script to run Setup from a custom setup script, automatically installing Windows 95 when each user logs on.
• Use Microsoft Systems Management Server to run Windows 95 Setup with a custom setup script as a mandatory action.
• Use network management software from another vendor to install Windows 95 automatically based on custom setup scripts.

For more information, see Chapter 5, "Custom, Automated, and Push Installations."

In this chapter, notations in the margin indicate the MSBATCH.INF section name and option that you can specify to customize a particular part of Setup in a script. For more information about setup script entries, see Appendix D, "MSBATCH.INF Parameters."