Symantec ALTIRIS DEPLOYMENT SOLUTION 7.1 - V1 User manual

Altiris™Deployment Solution
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Altiris™Deployment Solution for Clients from Symantec
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Technical Support ............................................................................................... 4
Chapter 1 Introducing Deployment Solution .................................... 11
About Deployment Solution ........................................................... 11
Components of Deployment Solution ............................................... 12
Chapter 2 Getting started with Deployment Solution .................... 13
Using Deployment Solution ........................................................... 13
About the Deployment Portal ......................................................... 16
Using Deployment Solution for the first time .................................... 18
Installing the Deployment plug-in ................................................... 19
About Deployment Solution policies ................................................ 20
Uninstalling the Deployment plug-in ............................................... 22
Upgrading the Deployment plug-in ................................................. 23
About Deployment site server components ....................................... 24
About PXE .................................................................................. 24
Installing Deployment site server components .................................. 25
Chapter 3 Configuring Deployment Solution settings .................... 29
Configuring deployment and migration settings ................................ 29
About Sysprep imaging ................................................................. 32
Adding an OS license .................................................................... 33
Creating a PXE preboot image ......................................................... 33
Adding a driver for a preboot configuration ...................................... 34
About automation folders .............................................................. 35
About configuring a PXE server ...................................................... 36
About initial deployment ............................................................... 36
Configuring the initial deployment settings ...................................... 36
Chapter 4 Running tasks and jobs ...................................................... 39
About deployment tasks and jobs .................................................... 39
Creating a deployment task ............................................................ 42
Changing network settings ............................................................ 43
Combining tasks into a job ............................................................. 44
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Scheduling a deployment task ........................................................ 44
Checking the state of a task ............................................................ 45
Starting computers in different modes ............................................. 46
Assigning jobs to an unmanaged computer ....................................... 46
Copy File options ......................................................................... 47
About wiping a disk ...................................................................... 48
Partition Disk options ................................................................... 49
About iLO power management ........................................................ 50
Chapter 5 Imaging computers ............................................................. 51
About images .............................................................................. 52
Deployment image types ............................................................... 52
About image resources .................................................................. 53
About disk image packages ............................................................ 53
Deleting an image package ............................................................. 54
Deleting an image resource or personality resource ............................ 55
Creating and deploying an image .................................................... 55
About preparing to capture a disk image .......................................... 57
Prepare for Image Capture options .................................................. 57
About deploying images to multiple computers ................................. 58
About creating an image ................................................................ 59
Create Image options .................................................................... 59
Advanced Create Image options ...................................................... 60
About deploying an image ............................................................. 61
Deploy Image options ................................................................... 62
Advanced Deploy Image options ..................................................... 63
Restoring a backup image .............................................................. 63
Deploying new computers .............................................................. 64
Adding new system configuration settings ........................................ 65
System configuration editor settings ............................................... 66
Error 10010 ................................................................................ 67
Chapter 6 Performing scripted OS installations .............................. 69
About scripted OS installations ....................................................... 69
OS Files options ........................................................................... 70
Sample scripted OS job .................................................................. 70
About Windows scripted OS installations ......................................... 71
Install Windows OS options ........................................................... 71
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Chapter 7 Migrating personality settings ......................................... 73
About PC Transplant .................................................................... 73
About personality templates .......................................................... 74
About migration settings ............................................................... 76
Capturing user settings ................................................................. 76
Capture options ........................................................................... 77
Distributing user settings .............................................................. 78
Deploy options ............................................................................ 79
Appendix A Example log files ................................................................. 81
rd2D7C26.txt ............................................................................... 81
ClientImaging_Task.txt ................................................................. 82
Index .................................................................................................................... 85
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