Selecting Computers In The New Job Wizard; Applying Computers To A Job; Associating Destination Computers - Symantec ALTIRIS DEPLOYMENT SOLUTION 6.9 SP4 - V1.0 Manual

Selecting computers in the new job wizard

Applying computers to a job

Associating destination computers

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Note
This option creates two jobs that appear in the Jobs pane: Job (Capture) and Job
(Distribute).
Job (Capture) includes a Capture Personality Settings task (see
settings on page 179) to capture the personality of the source computer.
Job (Distribute) includes a Deploy Image task (see
page 162) and one or more Install Package tasks to update software, if selected (see
Distributing software on page 175).
Simply capture the personality of the computers
Click this option to capture and save, but not distribute, the personality settings of the
selected computer(s). You can select a personality template and save Personality
Packages to the Deployment Share, letting you distribute these personality settings later
to new computers.
Note
This option creates a single job with a Capture Personality Settings task (see
personality settings on page 179).
See also New job wizard
The New Job Wizard provides steps to select and assign computers to the jobs created in
the wizard, rather than requiring you to create a job and assign it to computers when
building new jobs. The jobs created in the New Job Wizard appear in the Jobs pane, and
can be saved and assigned to other computers at a later time. You can also schedule
jobs for the specified computers in the wizard. See
Scheduling jobs on page 153.
When deploying software in the New Job Wizard, you can select computers to assign the
Distribute Software task created in the wizard. (See
You can also select an option to simply store the job and use it at another time without
scheduling the job. Regardless of the scheduling option selected, the job appears in the
Jobs pane to use at another time.
New Computers. Open an Adding New Computers dialog to create new user
accounts to assign the job. See
See also Scheduling jobs
Use this dialog to associate source computers with destination computers when
migrating personality settings. Depending on the computers selected in the previous
Select Computers dialog, you can migrate personality settings captured from the
source computers to new destination computers.
Right-click a computer in the Source column to replace it with another source
computer. Right-click a computer in the Destination column to replace it with another
on page 146.
Adding new computers
on page 153.
Capturing personality
Distributing a disk image
Building new jobs on page 150 and
Distributing software on page 175.)
on page 98.
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Capturing
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