Comment by 7bit
Agreed with the "what does this achieve". In Corporate environments you would use SCCM or simply the Windows ADK plus WDS.
Installing a custom Firewall and Antivirus ist straight counteproductive, as ist disabling security features... obvisouly.
Downloading and installing group policies however is often required and a typical enterprise scenario.
Whenever I hear people praise these kind of things I know they don't really have any professional knowledge. It's fine to configure your own system, but suggesting these things SHOULD be done pisses me off to no end.
Seems i lack a lot of professional knowledge so please enlighten me on how you would do it.
Why use ADK or SCCM for a personal install?
The custom firewall is just a frontend for the builtin firewall.
GP reg keys are used by many third party tools to alter the system. So why use extra software if you can get this directly from the vendor?
And also a rant about anti virus: What do think is the first thing malware does? How does your system get infected if you are using an updated browser, open mails in it and use it for viewing attachments like PDF? Maybe there is even malware out there that does take advantage of high jacking the anti virus and its system priviliges? But who knows… it always depends on the user and the use case.