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Imaging
Migrating computers
Altiris Deployment Solution™ from Symantec User's Guide
See
Viewing job details
on page 145.
Scheduling jobs
From the Schedule Job dialog, you can run jobs immediately or schedule the job to run
in batches at defined intervals. You can also assign the job to repeat every hour, day, or
week. Scheduling jobs can be as simple as clicking OK to run immediately or as
sophisticated as required to meet your deployment needs.
For complete information about building and scheduling deployment jobs, see on
page 145.
A primary task of Deployment Solution is to capture an image (a clone of the hard drive)
from a reference computer and distribute the image to set up new computers or reinstall
computers to their basic configuration. You can create a library of image files on the
Deployment Share (file server storage) and schedule image jobs to different computer
types as required.
Deployment Server lets you push down a boot image remotely and execute the image
using PXE Server, eliminating the need to physically attend and boot each managed
computer.
See
Creating a disk image
job wizard
on page 146
Imaging from deployment server
Deployment Server includes multiple features to capture an image and lay it down to a
new or existing computer. You can use the Deployment Server Console to create and
distribute disk images using deployment tasks, such as the Quick Disk Image wizard
shown below:
Pre-boot environments let you boot to automation to create and deploy images, back up
and restore a computer's registry file, or run other automation tasks. You can also boot
to a Network Server and run imaging files and other commands.
See Boot Disk Creator Help and PXE Configuration Utility Help.
Deployment Solution provides various options to migrate operating systems, computer
personalities, software, or entire hard disk images. You can accomplish migration tasks
individually or as a single job.
The New Job Wizard steps you through each migration option, letting you capture a
complete hard disk image (to upgrade to a new computer), migrate a user to another
operating system with the same personality settings and applications, or to simply move
personality settings from one computer to the another. Using the New Job Wizard is one
of the easiest ways to build deployment tasks to migrate user data and settings.
Deployment Solution lets you build sophisticated deployment jobs that automatically
migrate personalities, including deployment tasks to capture the user's personality,
migrate the operating system and software, and reconfigure the computer with the
user's original personality settings. You can also edit Personality Packages or Rapid
on page 157,
Distributing a disk image
on page 162, and
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