>>We do it the hard way. As we are a Novel network environment, we have NAL, or Novell Application Launher. It takes a before and after snap shot of a pc and duplicates changes on any pc that then runs it.
>>As we run Oracle DBs from all over the place, in different versions, this think saves our system many times. We have forced every pc in our org (1200+) to have net80 and our standard tnsnames.ora, all from doing 1 pc once.
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>The hard way? That is so easy. We also paid for this software, but our illustrious LAN Admins won't implement it. :--(

It was our LAN admin that made it mandatory to use it for all client server applications and is out IT depets standard to roll every application used by more than a small munber of ppl, stuff such as Office, IE, soon to be w2k and the office97-2k upgrade
It also makes debugging easy to.