Question : Distributed Configuration and Software Installation to Machines that we will ship out to Customers

I'm netadmin at a company where we are deploying Vista machines to customers.  We order them, we get them shipped in and I configure them one by one, install the necessary software and then we ship the machines out for deployment to customer locations.    The two main things I want to do are install this software I have packaged as an MSI file, and to change a few local security policy settings.

What would you recommend I use to get this done to multiple machines at once?

Answer : Distributed Configuration and Software Installation to Machines that we will ship out to Customers

For network instllation of Vista you can use sysprep,WAIK and WDS.

For documentation access the below link

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Deploying-Vista-Understanding-Windows-AIK.html