Symantec ALTIRIS DEPLOYMENT SOLUTION 7.1

Altiris™Deployment Solution

from Symantec User Guide

Version 7.1

Altiris™Deployment Solution for Clients from Symantec

User Guide

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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

Contents

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

Contents8

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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