Automated software distribution is immensely important in a managed IT operation. If you don't have effective tools, software either becomes out of date or very time consuming and costly to manage. Altiris provides a powerful set of tools to manage software distribution more easily.
This article covers the second stage of using Altiris Deployment Solution to deploy Vista: deploying an image with the default sysprep process.
Sysprep is the tool provided with Vista to enable you to prepare a new computer for deployment. It is the only supported way of doing this. Altiris Deployment Solution uses Sysprep. However it does it behind the scenes. If you want to change the process, you need to understand a bit about what Altiris is doing, and a bit about how Sysprep works.
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This article covers the first stage of using Altiris Deployment Solution to deploy Vista: creating the image with a default sysprep process.
Sysprep is the tool provided with Vista to enable you to prepare a new computer for deployment. It is the only supported way of doing this. Altiris Deployment Solution uses Sysprep. However it does it behind the scenes. If you want to change the process, you need to understand a bit about what Altiris is doing, and a bit about how Sysprep works.
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Altiris Deployment Solution is an effective and versatile tool for OS deployment on a large scale. However it can be a confusing product to evaluate. This piece is about why and how to use Altiris for your Vista deployments.
Most large businesses I have come across at some point come to wonder how better to manage their IT operations. IT consumes a lot of money, but often does not seem to be doing what you want, almost wilfully. You ask for something to be done, and three weeks later nothing at all seems to have happened. Surely they are all just incompetent. Outsourcing has been around a long time as a solution to this problem of feeling a lack of control.