I just picked up kixtart a week or two back, and am in the process of implementing my first kixtart script into production at this moment.

It seems like a much improved form of batch scripting, and there are some really handy editors and other accessories available for download as well.

For Note: I believe Batch Scripting is still fine in XP also. We tried a few XP workstations here, however we did not like it in the least. We've decided to stay all 2000 for now.

I believe in the near future everything will have to be VB due to .net, or at least that is the plan as I understand it