Installing The Agent Using Group Policy; Preparing The Agent's Deployment - ACRONIS BACKUP AND RECOVERY 10 ADVANCED SERVER SBS EDITION - INSTALLATION UPDATE 3 Installation Manual

Members of the Acronis Remote Users group are allowed to connect to the agent remotely.
/ams_address Management_Server
Specifies the name or IP address of the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server. With
this parameter, the machine will be registered on the management server after the installation is
complete.
/ams_user Admin_Name Password
Specifies the name and password of a user who is a member of the Acronis Centralized
Admins group on the management server. Use this parameter with the /ams_address
parameter.
/cep_enabled
Specifies whether the machine will participate in the Customer Experience Program.
With this parameter, information about the hardware configuration, the most and least used
features and about any problems will be automatically collected from the machine and sent to
Acronis on a regular basis. The terms of participation can be found on the Acronis Web site.
Without this parameter, the information will not be sent.

2.5 Installing the agent using Group Policy

You can centrally install, or deploy, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows onto machines
that are members of an Active Directory domain, by using Group Policy, a mechanism available in
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and later Windows server operating systems.
2.5.1

Preparing the agent's deployment

In this and the following sections, you will find out how to set up a Group Policy object to deploy
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows onto machines in an entire domain or in its
organizational unit.
Every time a machine logs on to the domain, the resulting Group Policy object will ensure that the
agent is installed and operational on the machine.
Prerequisites
Before proceeding with agent deployment, make sure that:

You have an Active Directory domain with a domain controller running Microsoft Windows
Server 2003 or later.

You are a member of the Domain Admins group in the domain.

You know the license key or the name or IP address of a machine where Acronis License Server is
installed.
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You have a machine running Windows, with Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Console
installed on it.
Step 1: Extracting installation packages
You need to create a shared folder that will contain the agent's installation package (provided as an
.msi file), and extract the package there.
1. On the domain controller (or any other machine in the domain), create a folder—for example:
D:\Acronis
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