User manual SYMANTEC ALTIRIS DEPLOYMENT SOLUTION DATASHEET

[. . . ] Data Sheet: Endpoint Management AltirisTM Deployment Solution from Symantec Reduce the time and cost of deploying and managing IT devices Overview AltirisTM Deployment Solution from Symantec helps reduce the cost of deploying and managing servers, desktops, and notebooks from a centralized location in your environment. The solution offers OS deployment, configuration, PC "personality" migration, and software deployment across hardware platforms and OS types, including Microsoft® Windows® 7 and Windows Server® 2008. Deployment Solution helps reduce end-user downtime by automating the deployment process and increases IT efficiency through automated, repeatable deployment processes. [. . . ] Deployment Solution simplifies the migration process by offering industryleading migration technology that guides you as you capture desktop, network, and application settings, along with user data. The solution then packages the data in a self-extracting file for easy redeployment on a new computer or operating system. It also gives you the option, using Symantec Ghost in-place file preservation technology, to image around the resultant package or any other files that you would like to leave on the new system. Using this feature helps avoid copying large amounts of data to and from the network since the data never has to leave the target system. "When it comes to provisioning hardware, Altiris has reduced our manual labor by 75 percent, which allows us to reallocate staff resources to other projects. " - Link Alexander, Executive Director, Campus Services Lone Star College System Powerful task management Deployment Solution has a powerful task and automation engine that makes it easy to create even the most complex deployment and migration tasks. With smarter jobs and better branch logic, Deployment Solutions offers flexible tasks and jobs that are reusable across your entire organization. Whether it is support for server-side scripting or conditional error handling, Deployment Solution provides unparalleled job and task management. Integrated with Symantec Management Platform The latest version of Deployment Solution is natively built on the Symantec Management Platform making it more flexible and scalable to better support your entire organization. Large scale deployments are simplified with Deployment Solution's ability to synchronize tasks and images and manage PXE servers across your organization, reducing management complexity. Deployment Solution leverages native computer filters and dynamic groups to accurately target deployments. Securing the console and data for IT functions becomes standard as you use deployment and other functions of the AltirisTM product line. To go beyond deployment and migration, Deployment Solution provides better integration with management and security products from Symantec. Now you can share data and tasks with inventory, patch management, remote and out-of-bands management, backup and restore, security products and much more: all using a single agent, console, and database. Simplified software management OS deployment is only part of the battle. Once a computer or server is provisioned, you also need to deploy applications as part of your build process. Deployment Solution allows you to add software deployment tasks directly into any deployment job. [. . . ] Mountain View, CA 94043 USA +1 (650) 527 8000 1 (800) 721 3934 www. symantec. com Copyright © 2010 Symantec Corporation. Symantec and the Symantec Logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Symantec Corporation or its affiliates in the U. S. Symantec helps organizations secure and manage their information-driven world with high availability, and disaster recovery solutions. [. . . ]