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Data Sheet: Endpoint Management
Altiris™ Deployment Solution from Symantec
Migrate data and settings
Migrating data and settings from an old computer or
operating system to a new one has always been a
frustrating and time consuming task. Deployment Solution
simplifies the migration process by offering industry-
leading migration technology that guides you as you
capture desktop, network, and application settings, along
with user data. The solution then packages the data in a
self-extracting file for easy redeployment on a new
computer or operating system. It also gives you the option,
using Symantec Ghost in-place file preservation technology,
to image around the resultant package or any other files
that you would like to leave on the new system. Using this
feature helps avoid copying large amounts of data to and
from the network since the data never has to leave the
target system.
"When it comes to provisioning hardware, Altiris has
reduced our manual labor by 75 percent, which
allows us to reallocate staff resources to other
projects." - Link Alexander, Executive Director,
Campus Services Lone Star College System
Powerful task management
Deployment Solution has a powerful task and automation
engine that makes it easy to create even the most complex
deployment and migration tasks. With smarter jobs and
better branch logic, Deployment Solutions offers flexible
tasks and jobs that are reusable across your entire
organization. Whether it is support for server-side scripting
or conditional error handling, Deployment Solution provides
unparalleled job and task management.
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Simplified software management
OS deployment is only part of the battle. Once a computer
or server is provisioned, you also need to deploy
applications as part of your build process. Deployment
Solution allows you to add software deployment tasks
directly into any deployment job. In addition, these can be
created using conditional tasks to add ultimate flexibility
when deploying systems. The solution makes it faster and
easier than ever to deploy, configure, and upgrade software
on managed devices.
"Altiris reduces the time and maintenance costs
associated with imaging and cloning PCs by
deploying standard, corporate-approved, hardware-
independent images." — Hakam Sourani,
Director of IT and AV Emirates Palace
Integrated with Symantec Management Platform
The latest version of Deployment Solution is natively built
on the Symantec Management Platform making it more
flexible and scalable to better support your entire
organization. Large scale deployments are simplified with
Deployment Solution's ability to synchronize tasks and
images and manage PXE servers across your organization,
reducing management complexity. Deployment Solution
leverages native computer filters and dynamic groups to
accurately target deployments. Securing the console and
data for IT functions becomes standard as you use
deployment and other functions of the Altiris™ product line.
To go beyond deployment and migration, Deployment
Solution provides better integration with management and
security products from Symantec. Now you can share data
and tasks with inventory, patch management, remote and
out-of-bands management, backup and restore, security
products and much more: all using a single agent, console,
and database.
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