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| ProdID: 948 - Symantec Ghost Solution Suite v1.1Developed bySymantec | Product Score: 9.0 |
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Managing today's increasingly heterogeneous enterprise environments of connected and mobile PCs poses major challenges for IT managers. Primary among them is the need to control the costs of setting up new PCs, migrating user desktop settings, and deploying OS and application upgrades and updates. By enabling the remote management of routine tasks such as PC deployment, cloning, changes in configuration settings, user migration, and backup and recovery of disk images, Symantec Ghost streamlines the configuration and management of networked PCs, thereby dramatically reducing IT costs. The New Symantec Ghost Solution Suite enables IT Administrators to reduce the cost and time required to: • Create standard system images for new workstations and servers. • Deploy new Windows and Linux operating systems across an enterprise. • Migrate users to new computers or Windows operating systems while preserving user settings, preferences, application settings and data. • Deploy new or updated applications and distribute updates. • Create detailed reports on hardware and software inventory. • Retire computers by securely disposing of confidential data. Symantec Ghost Solution Suite contains three leading-industry applications in one suite: • Symantec Ghost • Symantec DeployCenter • Symantec Client Migration With the combination of Symantec Ghost and DeployCenter technologies, Symantec now offers the only solution on the market with both file-based and sector-based imaging technologies. Symantec's file-based imaging technology delivers optimum ease-of-use and flexibility for customizing and updating images, while its sector-based imaging provides the ultimate in accuracy by retaining Windows optimizations when creating system images. And with Symantec Client Migration, Administrators can utilize a user migration tool that provides unique features such as Web-based self-service and highly secure encrypted communication for mobile users, even over the Internet. |
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Symantec Ghost Solution Suite is an imaging and deployment solution for the corporate market. We have found that it has increased the productivity of our staff, by shorting the process of loading OEM Windows on multiple computers all at the same time, through the Ghost Multicast Server. Not only can we upload images up to the new machines. But we can then customize these loads with the individual software of each client, and load that personalised image back to the Ghost Server to either store on the server or write to DVD for future use. We have also found that when we need to load a ghost image off site at a client’s premise, as don’t have the ghost server available, or in most cases these days also don’t have a floppy disk drive available in customer’s computer, we can create a Ghost Boot CD with which to load the image onto the computer. We have found that we are able to use Ghost to upload the client’s current operating system and software whether in working or no working order, to the Ghost Server, via a ghost image. Then use either a Ghost image on a DVD / USB Hard Drive, or on the Ghost Server itself to load a new operating system back to the client’s computer. Then to use Ghost to extract only what is required from that image we stored on the Server and transfer it back to the client’s machine. In conjunction with Universal Imaging Utility this makes Ghost a powerful tool, due to the fact that our organization has managed not only to save time with loading imaging’s but also managed to standardize a basic ghost image that can be loaded onto any configuration of hardware. We are now able to set a price for loading an operating system, no matter what speed the hardware maybe or what configuration it is. This has made our customer’s very happy as they know what pricing they are in for before the work is started, instead of giving them an estimate how many hours we expect to spend loading an operating system. Another feature we have discovered about Ghost Solution Suite is that when imaging data from a hard drive which has bad sectors on it, that we can configure Ghost to skip these bad sectors and continue with the download of the image onto another source, in the passed before we had the use of Ghost, we had to inform customers that the time that it would take to backup there data would not be worth it. Overall with the implementation of Ghost Solution Suite we have managed to reduce many hours of repetitive work down to a under a hour of work, with which we can reuse until the image becomes out of date. Useful Features of Symantec Ghost Suite: Listed below is the system specifications which we found are needed for the full use of Ghost Solution Suite: Databases — one of the following must be installed on the server computer: |
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Anonymous Regarding: Databases — one of the following must be installed on the server computer: -MSDE 2000 (limited to small user counts) -SQL 7.0 -Microsoft SQL Server 2000 It's worth noting that MSDE 2000 is supplied with the product and is only installed if you are using Symantec Client Migration 3.x. Similarly, SQL Server 7.0 or 2000 (locally or remotely) can replace MSDE if you are working on a larger scale and require better performance from the Symantec Client Migration solution. Separately, moving the Symantec Client Migration file data store to a separate drive also increases data throughput. |
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