Chapter 1: About Altiris® Deployment Solution - Symantec ALTIRIS DEPLOYMENT SOLUTION 6.9 SP4 - V1.0 Manual

Chapter 1
About Altiris® Deployment Solution™
Deployment Solution
Altiris® Deployment Solution™ software provides a suite of tools to quickly install
operating systems and software. Deployment Solution leverages a number of Altiris
technologies to provide extensive management capabilities:
Altiris Technology
RapiDeploy® Imaging
Scripted OS Installation and
Sysprep Integration
PC Transplant® Personality
Migration
Software Virtualization and
Software Distribution
Wise Package Studio® and Wise
SetupCapture
Script deployment engine
In addition, the following technologies are integrated with the features of Altiris®
Deployment Server® software to provide comprehensive deployment and migration:
Deployment Server Feature
Task-sequencer
Computer groups
Dynamic insertion of database
values (tokens)
Computer discovery
Inventory
Description
Capture and deploy computer images using PXE,
DVDs, CDs, or USB drives.
Perform automated scripted operating system
installations using sysprep.
Migrate user data and application settings to new
hardware and operating systems.
Deploy, activate, and manage SVS layers, and
install other software packages.
Build and capture custom installation packages
using the latest Windows Installer technology.
Remotely execute Visual basic and Linux shell
scripts.
Description
Management tasks provided by Deployment
Server can be grouped and executed in order,
enabling you to perform complex management
operations in a single job.
Computers can be organized into multiple groups
to simplify job deployment. Drag and drop a
computer group onto a job and the job runs on all
computers in the group.
Scripts, Sysprep configuration files, and other
values can use tokens to retrieve database values
at run time.
Quickly install the Deployment Agent on large
numbers of Windows computers using the
Remote Agent Installer.
Managed computers are inventoried for software
and hardware, and conditions and filters can be
created based on this inventory. Example: a
distribute software task could check the operating
system and distribute the correct software
version.
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