Deploy Local Group Policy Remotely

We have a client who has 20+ remote sites. Each site comprises of a single PC (Windows XP Pro), an ADSL router and firewall.

They wanted to lock the PCs down through group policy but since the PCs aren’t part of the domain didn’t want to send an engineer to each site to setup the local group policy

My suggestion was the following

At head office configure the local group policy of a PC. Then copy the following directory on this PC onto every remote PC and reboot (or run gpupdate)

%systemroot%\system32\GroupPolicy

voila!