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Altiris PC Transplant
Migrate your PCs settings and data to a new PC or a new OS |
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| Your users need the added performance and functionality of that new PC or OS. But you know that the migration is going to take hours. And it’s hard to be sure how the migration will turn out. Will the PC look, feel, and work like it did before? Will critical data be there? And how many weeks of follow-up helpdesk calls will it take before the computer finally works the way your users expect? |
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| PC Transplant Pro makes transferring the files and settings that make your PC unique--its personality--a quick and intuitive process. |
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| The PC Transplant Wizard helps identify and capture files, directories, desktop, network, and application settings, and builds them into a compressed, self-extracting Personality Package. The Migration Wizard simplifies OS migrations by cloning the OS and migrating each PC's unique name, IP address (or DHCP settings), and automatically creating a user account with network and sharing rights, printer drivers, and personality. |
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| PC Transplant Pro also includes the award-winning RapiDeployTM |
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| PC Transplant does in minutes what used to take hours or even days—and without any unpleasant surprises! |
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| Ways to Use PC Transplant Pro in Your Organisation: |
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| PC Transplant Pro helps organisations leverage existing resources by minimising the amount of "hands-on" time required to migrate users to a new PC or OS. |
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| Here are just a few of the ways you can use PC Transplant Pro. For more information on the ideas presented below, refer to the PC Transplant Pro documentation and help Files. |
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| Upgrading to a new PC - Simply run the PC Transplant Wizard on the old PC to capture the desired settings and data, save the Personality Package, copy that file onto the new PC, double click and you're done. |
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| Upgrading to a new OS - Use PC Transplant Pro's Migration Wizard to prepare boot disks and an OS disk image (complete with applications). After backing off the personality, clone the OS image onto the PC, and reapply the Personality Package. PC Transplant Pro even post configures the PC and creates the user account automatically. |
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| Deploying a new OS organisation-wide - PC Transplant Pro also lets you create build templates that ensure that the settings and data YOU want captured end up in the personality package. These templates can be used to run PC Transplant Pro from the command line to help automate OS migrations organisation-wide. |
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| Departmental PC shuffle - Just have your users run PC Transplant Pro and back up their PC personalities to the network. Move all PCs at once, have your users reapply their personalities and you are done. |
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| Backing up and restoring PC personalities - Most disaster recovery solutions restore data. PC Transplant Pro also restores desktop, network, printer, and application settings-such as templates, favorites, and contacts-even entire directory structures, so your users will be up and running quickly and painlessly. |
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| Resource sharing (Hoteling) - Share PC resources-like a departmental laptop, or a teacher's console in a multi-teacher PC training lab-by having each user create a Personality Package with the settings and data they need on the shared PC. They just double-click on their Personality Package before their class or presentation, and then double-click to uninstall it after they are done to return the computer to its original state. (This requires one license per user.) |
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| Synchronising multiple PCs - Create a build template including only the directories, documents, and settings you use most (such as bookmarks and email contacts), then build a new personality package any time you need to move between PCs to capture your most recent changes. You can even select the files or settings you want to update on the target PC, so you don't have to wait for the full personality package to install to access a single file. |
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| Sharing settings and department profiling - Create a small personality package containing only the settings you want to share, or create a "marketing" or "accounting" personality with the templates, style sheets, forms, and contacts, etc., you want shared with all computers within the department. |
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| Real Time Migration This feature allows you to sit at one PC and choose what settings/files you wish to move and it moves this data straight over to the PC you designate. This eliminates need to create Personality Backup files and is a great direct method for migrating a PC. |
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| Now you can install applications on the destination computer before migrating the settings of the application. You can select the applications that must be installed on the destination computer from the PC Transplant Wizard and the Personality Migration Wizard. |
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| A new utility called Application Install Administrator helps manage the installation of the applications. This utility helps you create an application installation file. This file can be used later during the migration process for providing the installation information. |
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