

Which you can install on remote clients to The fifth component is the Management Agent, Which-Management Console, License Server, OS Deploy Server,Īnd PXE Server-are typically installed on one dedicated server. The installation consists of five separate applications, four of Getting Started guide that helped me begin the installation process. I narrowedĭown to Acronis Snap Deploy for the purposes of this comparative Of products that target complex disk-imaging projects. Like the other two companies in this review, Acronis offers a suite All three productsĬan utilize a multicast technology with which multiple PCs can The product then copies to a new PC’s hard disk. This image file serves as a master image that One other Vista and Windows XP client to test remote management.Įach product uses a similar process of copying an entire hard disk toĪn image file (or files). Each network had a dedicated server running a managementĬonsole, from which I could manage remote machines, and To test each product, I used built-in feature sets for deployingĪ new OS. Would be best suited to helping you deploy Vista in your environment.

Hoping my findings will help you determine which of these products System Builder Edition, and Symantec Ghost Solution Suite. In this comparative review, I examine three disk-imaging solutions:Īcronis Snap Deploy 2.0, Paragon Deployment Manager 8.5 Numbers are different for every company, but suffice it to say that anĪdministrator who oversees only 10 computers probably won’t be

Have in your environment and how many you deploy per year. That master image, you need to consider how many computers you Of course, to justify the overhead of creating and maintaining Quickly lay down a master image of a hard disk to one or more computers. To babysit an installation, you can use a disk-imaging product to Scurrying around to find a copy of the OS, the license key, and someone Product is essential for saving hours of valuable time. Looking at hundreds or even thousands of machines, a disk-imaging Physically visiting each one is probably reasonable. If your company has only a few computers, the notion of Start thinking about how to deploy this major Our findings will help you determine which of these products would be best suited to helping you deploy, for example, Windows Vista in your environment. In this comparative review, we examine three disk-imaging solutions: Acronis Snap Deploy 2.0, Paragon Drive Backup Professional 8.5, and Symantec Ghost Solution Suite.
