GPO deployment of client, with config file?

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You can modify the MSI with a tool like Orca or InstedIT. In the registry table you can add registry entries like the WorkIdle or default relay settings and then the client will use those settings on installation.

There are good instructions here:

BigFix client deplpy with AD GPOs?

(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 …