(imported comment written by brolly3391)
Hello Stacy Lee,
I have done this at several customer sites and it is my favorite method of client distribution.
The only bit of weirdness for one customer was that one of their remote networks was not able to talk directly to the BES server for the client’s first registration. Because a GPO distribution requires an MSI, we created an MST to drop the registry key to explicitly point those clients to their local relay, which was then able to relay that critical initial registration request up to the server. This would not be an issue with normal network topology.
The other item is that the distribution is not instant. You have to wait for a logon event or some other GPO refresh event to kick off each client install. Within a day, most clients were installed and functioning normally.
Cheers,
Brolly