New In Acronis Snap Deploy 2.0; Acronis Snap Deploy Architecture - ACRONIS SNAP DEPLOY 2.0 User Manual

Managing deployment templates
Master image creation
Master images checking
Support for various ways of boot up (bootable media, Microsoft Remote
Installation Services (RIS) or PXE servers)
Remote PXE Server management
File management on a remote PC
Application execution on a remote PC
Installing Acronis components to a remote computer (requires appropriate
access rights)
Logs viewing
Support a variety of IDE, SCSI, USB and PC Card (formerly PCMCIA)
storage media
Support for all hard disks, regardless of capacity
Support for backup images created with Acronis True Image
User-friendly Windows XP-like interface with full mouse support
Comprehensive wizards simplify even the most complex operations

1.2. New in Acronis Snap Deploy 2.0

Acronis Universal Deploy option - Automatic selection of the HAL and mass
storage device drivers to fit the target hardware
64 bit Windows support
A facility of master and target computers boot with Microsoft RIS server
New Bootable Media Builder
New master image creation options (setting the priority of the imaging
process, validating the newly created image etc.)
New deployment options (resizing partitions according to the proportion of
the master and target disk capacities, shutting down the target computers
after deployment etc.)
1.3. Acronis Snap Deploy components
Acronis Snap Deploy includes the following components:
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Adding, editing or deleting local user accounts
Setting network settings
Generation of new security identifiers (SIDs) for the target computers
Transferring files to all target computers after deployment
Executing applications on all target computers after deployment
Running configuration files on all target computers after deployment
General information
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