Deployment Solution 19
Chapter 1
About Altiris® Deployment Solution™
Altiris® Deployment Solution™ software provides a suite of tools to quickly install
operating systems and software. Deployment Solution leverages a number of Altiris
technologies to provide extensive management capabilities:
In addition, the following technologies are integrated with the features of Altiris®
Deployment Server® software to provide comprehensive deployment and migration:
Altiris Technology Description
RapiDeploy® Imaging Capture and deploy computer images using PXE,
DVDs, CDs, or USB drives.
Scripted OS Installation and
Sysprep Integration
Perform automated scripted operating system
installations using sysprep.
PC Transplant® Personality
Migration
Migrate user data and application settings to new
hardware and operating systems.
Software Virtualization and
Software Distribution
Deploy, activate, and manage SVS layers, and
install other software packages.
Wise Package Studio® and Wise
SetupCapture
Build and capture custom installation packages
using the latest Windows Installer technology.
Script deployment engine Remotely execute Visual basic and Linux shell
scripts.
Deployment Server Feature Description
Task-sequencer Management tasks provided by Deployment
Server can be grouped and executed in order,
enabling you to perform complex management
operations in a single job.
Computer groups Computers can be organized into multiple groups
to simplify job deployment. Drag and drop a
computer group onto a job and the job runs on all
computers in the group.
Dynamic insertion of database
values (tokens)
Scripts, Sysprep configuration files, and other
values can use tokens to retrieve database values
at run time.
Computer discovery Quickly install the Deployment Agent on large
numbers of Windows computers using the
Remote Agent Installer.
Inventory Managed computers are inventoried for software
and hardware, and conditions and filters can be
created based on this inventory. Example: a
distribute software task could check the operating
system and distribute the correct software
version.
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