Setting up your network accordingly
After familiarizing yourself with your network and the software you want to deploy to it, you can set up your network accordingly.
• Make sure that you are either a local administrator or an administrator for the domains and workgroups that you are managing.
• Create a shared network location for the server image, and make sure that you have read/write access to that location.
If you want to make extra content (such as clipart, photos, and fills) available to workstation users in an offline network environment, do the following:
• You will receive a confirmation Proof of Entitlement Certificate email containing a URL linking to a shared drive containing the extra content, which you can download. Some of the downloadable content consists of Zip files that you must extract to the shared network location by using WinZip or another compression tool.
The extracted content is 5.75 GB.
• you are — and anyone else who will be installing the software is — either a local administrator or an administrator for the domains and workgroups that you are managing.
• you have — and anyone else who will be installing the software has — read access to the server-image location.
To more easily manage the access rights of workstation users — especially for pull-installation scenarios — you may want to consider using Group Policy Objects (GPOs). For more advanced information, please refer to the Software Development Kit (SDK) for Group Policy, which is available from Microsoft.