Introducing Acronis® Snap Deploy; Overview; What Is Acronis Snap Deploy; Who Needs Acronis Snap Deploy - ACRONIS SNAP DEPLOY 3 - FOR WORKSTATION Manual

1. Introducing Acronis® Snap Deploy®
This chapter gives a general idea of how an IT department can meet various real life challenges using
the Acronis Snap Deploy.

1.1 Overview

1.1.1 What is Acronis Snap Deploy

Acronis Snap Deploy is a flexible, efficient software solution for deployment of a fully configured
operating system (with or without application software and any other data) to multiple computers.
Because the product uses disk imaging technology, it is ideal for rapid bare-metal installations and
flexible centralized provisioning.

1.1.2 Who needs Acronis Snap Deploy?

Acronis Snap Deploy is primarily designed to be used by:
Small and medium-size businesses:
- IT service providers
- Hardware retailers
IT departments of larger corporations
Schools and universities
R&D and software testing labs.
The enterprise features added to Acronis Snap Deploy v 3 (scheduled deployment, support for
Preinstallation Environment, command line and scripting, to name a few) can help automate the tasks
of the IT department in large enterprise environments.

1.1.3 Acronis Snap Deploy infrastructure

Components of the Acronis infrastructure are installed on Windows computers. Centralized imaging,
deployment and managing the Acronis infrastructure is performed using Acronis Snap Deploy
Management Console.
A reference image can be taken either in Windows or in the Acronis or Windows PE environment. The
Acronis environment provides the GUI mode. Under Windows PE, command line mode and scripting
are supported.
Deployment is performed in the Acronis or Windows PE environment.
A dedicated bootable utility enables full functional deployment with GUI on a standalone computer (a
computer isolated from the network or included in a network without Acronis Snap Deploy
infrastructure.)
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