You can configure Ad-Aware (Plus or Professional) as you (or your company policy) please and then distribute the configuration files via Startup- and Logon-scripts in GPO for the domain and the OU.

Use the following approach for distribution of settings.awc:

Configure an installation of Norman Ad-Aware with the desired settings, i.e. the UNC-path to the defs.ref-file. Copy the settings.awc-file to a shared directory - users in the domain need to have Read-access to the directory.

Prepare a script-file to use for the ’distribution’ of the file - it could look like this (written on one line):

xcopy \\2kserver\adaware_defs\settings.awc "%userprofile%\Application Data\Norman\Ad-aware\" /H /Q /R /U /Y

%userprofile% is an environment variable which points to the user-dir in Documents and Settings.

The parameters used:

• /H = Copies hidden and system files
• /Q = Does not display file names while copying
• /R = Overwrites Read-only files
• /U = Copies only files that already exist in destination
• /Y = Suppresses prompting to confirm you want to overwrite an existing destination file.

Copy the script-file to the appropriate directory:

\\<domain name>\sysvol\<domain name>\Policies\{<GUID for the Netlogon share of the domain controller>}\USER\Scripts\Logon

Open Active Directory - Users and Computers, right click the Domain and choose Properties -> Group Policy -> Default Domain Policy -> Edit.

Navigate to User Configuration -> Windows Settings -> Scripts (Logon/Logoff) and choose Logon.

Click ’Add...’ and browse for the script-file in the Netlogon share -> click Open and OK

Click OK again and settings.awc is ready for ’distribution’.