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Branch Office Infrastructure Solution: BOISBuildFiles.msi
                               (c) Microsoft 2005

Released: May 31, 2005
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BOISBuildFiles.msi

Summary
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The Branch Office Infrastructure Solution (BOIS) provides the guidance to help large organizations and enterprises streamline branch office infrastructures. 

This BOISBuildFiles.msi is an integral part of the BOIS deliverables. It provides build and test support files used by the BOIS project team in the lab environment to develop and document the single-server solution. The files contained in this BOISBuildFiles.msi are intended to help you build the hub site computers and automate branch server deployment using the guidance in the BOIS Build Guide for the Single-Server Solution. The BOISBuildFiles.msi also includes the testing scripts and tools used to validate the build.

Descriptions of the folders and files contained in this BOISBUILDFiles.msi are provided below.

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Folders contained in BOISBuildFiles.msi:

  BLD
    - Manifest files, scripts, and utilities to use with the Automated Deployment Toolkit (ADT) to automated the building of the branch servers.

  BuildScripts
    - Scripts used to support building the hub site computers and configuring the DHCP scopes for the branch sites.

  ConfigEditor
    - The Configuration Editor user interface installer and pre-defined configuration files for the scenario tested in the BOIS lab environment.

  DirectoryServiceConfigs
    - Support files for configuring the Active Directory service on the branch domain controller.

  ISAConfigs
    - Template export files used for configuring ISA Server 2004 on the branch server.

  Samples
    - Sample ADT manifest files used to build the existing infrastructure servers for the solution tested in the BOIS lab environment, as well as Virtual Server 2005 virtual machine configuration (.vmc) files.

  SecurityPolicies
    - Security policy files used in group policies that are applied to organizational unit (OU) containers in the branch domain to define security for the hub site computers and the branch servers in the domain.

  TestKit
    - Test cases, scripts, and tools used to verify the hub site and branch server functionality for the scenario built in the BOIS lab environment.

For more information about the Branch Office Infrastructure Solution, see the BOIS-Readme.txt.

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