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Altiris Deployment SolutionTM
Rollout, Manage and restore PCs on your Network |
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| New in Version 6.8 |
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- 64-bit Computers: Deployment Solution 6.8 provides native production agents on x64 and Itanium platforms for several Windows and Linux operating systems. Itanium hardware support includes imaging and scripted operating sytem installations. Job conditions, filters, and inventory reporting have been updated to support these platforms. 64-bit WinPE and Linux automation environments are supported for preboot computer management, and several other enhancements have been made to support 64-bit computers.
- Deployment Agent Enhancements: Reduced-bandwidth inventory collection and new functionality to load balance the automatic update of your existing agents. Live events are now logged and server-side scripts no longer require the client be connected to execute. Job status reporting has also been enhanced to let you monitor jobs more closely.
- Enhanced Sysprep Support: When deploying images prepared using sysprep, you can now add mass storage drivers, select operating system type, and provide the product key directly from the task interface. Sysprep features are also supported on 64-bit operating systems.
- Automation Enhancements: Now includes an updated Linux automation operating system with new enhancements and drivers. WinPE support has been enhanced with the ability to select the preferred boot model and include components to provide support for Windows scripting, HTML applications, and ADO objects for SQL server connectivity. Boot Disk Creator provides additional security options to lock the keyboard in all automation environments and functionality to automatically detect when you are missing executables for multiple architectures.
- PXE Enhancements: PXE Server supports auto-detection and booting of 64-bit and Itanium computers. The PXE Config Utility has a new status window providing real time status of the PXE servers in your environment.
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| Additional enhancements |
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- Better detection of updated boot images and bandwidth-throttled downloads of boot images across PXE servers in your network.
- PXE Server can now service multiple NICs.
- VMware ESX* Server 3.0 scripted OS installation support
- Native support is provided to Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM) Imaging
- Native support is included for managing Software Virtualization Solution (SVS) layers. A trial version of SVS is included with Deployment Solution 6.8.
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| New in Version 6.5 |
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- WinPE and Linux pre-boot environments: DS supports removable media (CD, DVD, USB), PXE and automation partitions in both environments. Note: DVD is only supported with WinPE, not with the Linux pre-boot.
- Enhanced support for virtual machines: scripted OS install for VMware ESX servers as well as user interface controls for managing virtual hosts and guests
- Improved Active Directory integration: assign security rights to AD groups directly; pass-through authentication
- Wise Packager for Deployment Solution: create .MSI packages that support Microsoft’s Windows Installer. Wise Packager includes two utilities from Wise Package Studio: scaled down versions of Wise SetupCapture for capturing applications into .MSI format and Windows Installer Editor for customizing packages
- Security and performance enhancements: a new security setting for Deployment agents assure the clients connect to the correct Deployment Server
- Windows and web console enhancements: new filters and controls (e.g. copy/paste tasks) to enhance manageability
- Tighter Sysprep integration: Sysprep settings are now integrated into the CreateImage and DistributeImage tasks
- Pre-set Rack/Enclosure/Bay configuration: for Dell, IBM and Fujitsu Siemens (FSC) blade servers
- Power control for IBM and FSC servers
- Management agent for Solaris Sparc 8 & 9
- Set database name: administrators can now change the DS database name
- Imaging performance improvements
- Disk to disk and multicast master imaging modes (scriptable or through RapiDeploy standalone)
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| New in Version 6.0 |
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- Improved Server Management and an updated interface.
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| New in Version 5.6 |
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| Imaging |
- New imaging engine
- image ext 2 and ext 3 file systems (Linux)
- Improved performance (multicast and unicast)
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| Security |
- Role and scope-based security
- Restrict access to functions/tasks
- Restrict access to subsets of machines
- Object based
- Supports NT authentication
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| Tasks and Events |
- Events will be renamed to Jobs
- More flexible job/task management
- Conditional error handling
- Daisy chain jobs together
- User definable replaceable tokens
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| Scripted OS Installation |
- New Scripted OS Install Wizard used to build unattended install files
- Server side scripting
- Execute scripts on the DS server with client context
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| Scripting |
- Native client side VB scripting
- Enter VB script directly into Task UI
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| VLAN Configuration |
- Set client VLAN
- Script via command line
- Manually via UI
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| Additional Features: |
- Includes PCT 4.0 SP1
- Supports Windows Server 2003 (.NET)
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