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    2 © Ac ronis, Inc Copyright © Acr onis, Inc., 20 1 0 . All rights reserved . “Acronis”, “Ac ronis Comput e with Confidence ”, and the Acronis logo are t rademark s of Acronis, Inc. Linux is a registered tra demark of Linus Torvalds . Windows is a regis tered tra demark of Micros oft Corpor ation. All other trademarks and copyrights referr[...]

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    © Acronis, Inc 3 Table of Conte nts 1. Intr oducing A cronis ® Snap D eploy® .......................... ................................... .................. 6 1.1 Ove rview ......................... .................................. .................................. ................................. 6 1.1.1 W hat is Acro nis Snap Deploy ....[...]

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    4 © Ac ronis, Inc 3.5.1 Installation .......................................................... .................................. ....................... 26 3.5.2 Adding licenses u sing Acronis Snap Deplo y Management Co nsole ................ .................... 27 3.5.3 Adding licenses in co mmand line mode ............................ .......[...]

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    © Acronis, Inc 5 10. Sta ndalone depl oyment ................... ................................... ................................... ....... 67 11. Ma nual deploy ment ....................... ................................... ................................... ......... 69 11.1 Boo ting up the targets .......................................[...]

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    6 © Ac ronis, Inc 1. Introducing A cronis® Snap D eploy ® This chapter gives a gen eral idea of how a n IT departme nt can meet various real life challenges using the Acroni s Snap Deploy. 1. 1 Over view 1.1.1 What is Acronis Snap Depl oy Acronis Snap Deploy is a flexible, efficient softwa re solution for deplo yment of a fully configured operat[...]

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    © Acronis, Inc 7 1.2 What y ou can do w ith A cronis Snap Depl oy 3 1.2.1 Take a n image of the master s y stem ( Acronis Snap Deplo y 2.0 functionalit y) First, you create the desired system configuration and save the image of the system hard disk o n a network shar e, detachab le or removable media. Image is a file that contains t he system in a[...]

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    8 © Ac ronis, Inc Scenari os: 1. An organiz ation r eceives a shipment of com puters from a m anufacture r along wi th the li st of their MAC addresses. The IT departmen t has to dep loy the operatin g system to the new hardware. 2. An Internet café, s chool or university lab has 100 com puters with know n MAC ad dresse s. The nightl y deployment[...]

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    © Acronis, Inc 9 The administrator cre ates a script t hat performs pre - de ployment operatio ns, adds the script along w ith deployme nt scrip t to the PE and incl udes bot h scrip ts in the startnet.cmd file. O n booting into t he PE, both operations will be performed automatica lly. 4. The admi nistrator migh t need to execu te imaging or depl[...]

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    10 © Acro nis, Inc To initiate deployment o n the console side, t he administra tor switches off the custom deploymen t mode. 1.2.8 De ployment o f a disk partition or MBR (new in v 3) You do not necessa rily ha ve to deploy the e ntire disk. Provided the mast er and the target di sks h ave a similar partitioning scheme , you can image and deplo y[...]

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    © Acronis, Inc 11 1. 3 What el se is new in v 3 ? 1.3.1 Encr ypted communication Acronis Snap Deploy components commun icate to each o ther usin g the Secure Sock ets Laye r (SSL) cryptograp hic protocol. Encryption starts on the first (ear liest) stage of connection attempt, so all da ta transferred i n the ne xt step s (includ ing data r equired[...]

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    12 © Acro nis, Inc * - S – server lice nse, WS – workstation license. Acronis Snap Deploy e nables, with certain limita tions (some ope rations or options will not be available), imaging and deployment of any PC - based ope rating system. For exam ple, Windows 98/NT/M E , N T/4.0 Ser ver, Linux (ke rnel : 2.4 .9 – 2.6.x ) can be deployed onl[...]

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    © Acronis, Inc 13 1.6 Upgrade to v 3 To upgrade from Acronis Snap Deploy version 2 .0 or 1 .0 to version 3 , upg rade bo th the lice nses a nd the progr am componen ts. 1.6.1 Upgrading lic enses B uy the ne cessar y number of upgrade licen ses and import the l icenses to y our license server . The table below illustrat es how the various combinati[...]

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    14 © Acro nis, Inc 1.7 Technical support As part of a purc hased ann ual Supp ort char ge you ar e enti tled to Technical Suppor t as foll ows: to t he extent that el ectroni c services are available, you may electronically access at no additional charge, Supp ort ser vices for the S oftware, which Acronis sha ll endeavor to make ava ilable twenty[...]

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    © Acronis, Inc 15 2. Underst anding A cronis Snap Deplo y This chapter describes the Acro nis Snap Deploy infrastruct ure compo nents and th eir interaction . 2. 1 Terminol ogy The following table list s the common terms a nd descriptions used in this do cument. M ast er system The system to be deploy ed. M aster im ag e (I m ag e) A file th at co[...]

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    16 © Acro nis, Inc User The pers on on the t arget s ide who initiat es the custom deploymen t . This term relates to t he cus tom deployment mo de only . 2 .2 Components Acronis Snap Dep loy includ es the following c ompone nts: 1. Acronis S nap D eploy Manage ment C onsole is an administrative tool for remote access to Acronis servers and A cron[...]

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    © Acronis, Inc 17 2.3 Support for fi le sy stems and storag e media 2.3 .1 Support ed file s y stems Acronis Snap Deploy pr ovides full - featured imagi ng and deploymen t of the foll owing fil e systems: - FAT16/3 2 - NTFS - Ext2/Ext3 - ReiserFS - Reiser4 - Linux SWAP - XFS - JFS 2.3 .2 Support ed media Acronis Ma ster Imag e Creat or can save an[...]

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    18 © Acro nis, Inc 2.4 .1 Offline imagin g Offline imaging means t hat the m a ster system is stopp ed and the master computer boot s into Acronis (or PE) envir onment. 1. Confi gure the master sys tem. 2. Install Acro nis Snap De ploy M anageme nt Consol e . 3. Do one of t he foll owing: Create bootabl e media with Ac ronis Master Image Creator ([...]

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    © Acronis, Inc 19 2.4 .2 Online imagi ng Online imaging means tha t the master syste m is imaged live (wit hout reboot or s uspending operations .) Online imaging can be p erformed remotel y whene ver you nee d. The disadvant age is that you have to install ima ging software that (1) ta kes a license and (2) is included in the master image . This [...]

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    20 © Acro nis, Inc Create bootabl e media w ith Acronis Snap Dep loy Age nt (or PE with Acronis Snap Deploy comm and line utility) or Install Acronis PXE Server , connect th e console to th e PXE server and upload Ac ronis Sna p Deplo y Agent (or PE with Acronis Snap Dep loy comma nd line utility.) 3. Do one of t he foll owing , de pending o n you[...]

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    © Acronis, Inc 21 2. 5 What is A cronis Univer sal Deploy This section describes t he Acronis propriet ary technology that help s deploy and boot up Wi ndows on dissimilar hardware . Acroni s Universa l Depl oy saves yo u from co nfiguring a new master sys tem for each make of hardware you have to depl oy on . If you plan to deploy Windo ws on mul[...]

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    22 © Acro nis, Inc 2.5 .3 Acronis Uni versal Deplo y and Microsoft S ysprep Acronis Universal Deploy is not a system preparation tool. Yo u can apply it to any syste m image creat ed by Acro nis prod ucts , however, yo u can not appl y it to im ages of systems prepared with Microsoft System Pre paration Tool (Sysprep ). 2.5 .4 Getting Acronis Univ[...]

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    © Acronis, Inc 23 3. Inst allation 3 .1 Sy stem requir ements The Ac ronis Snap Deplo y compone nts can be insta lled on compute rs run ning t he followin g operating systems: T he ty pe o f license required for th e A cron is Sna p Deploy M a nagem ent Agent instal lation MS Wind ows Ser ver 2 008 R2 S MS Wind ows Ser ver 2 008 (x86, x64) S MS Wi[...]

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    24 © Acro nis, Inc 3.3 General r u les of inst al lat ion 3.3.1 Installation fil e Acronis Snap Deploy install ation file includes the f ollowing components a nd the c omponents’ fe atures: Acronis S nap D eploy Manage ment C onsole Acronis Snap Dep loy PE Bui lder Media Builder for Acro nis Image Creator Media Builder for Acro nis Snap Dep loy [...]

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    © Acronis, Inc 25 1. The minima l configuration that enables only off line imagin g and s tan dalone deployme nt : Acronis Snap Deploy Ma nagement Console ( custom installa tion, including: Media Builder for Acro nis Image Creator Media Builder for Acro nis Standa lone Utility.) all on t he same c o mput er . 2. The m inima l configuration that e [...]

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    26 © Acro nis, Inc to the manag ement agent ins talled on the master computer. The m anagement agent will be included in the mas ter image and d eployed on all targ et compu ters. This will enable y ou to manage files and execute app lications o n target compu ters at any time after deplo yment. However, having excess software in the master image [...]

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    © Acronis, Inc 27 The Acr onis Lic ense Server Ma nageme nt To ol is a simple command - line utility for co ntrolling Acronis Licens e Ser ver. Acr onis Lic ense Server Managem ent Consol e provides an easy- to - use GU I. Alte rnativel y, you ca n control Acro nis License Ser ver using A cronis Snap Depl oy Managem ent Console . So y ou can choos[...]

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    28 © Acro nis, Inc 3.5 .3 Adding l i censes in comma nd line mode If you ha ve insta lle d Acroni s License Server Managem ent Tool, y ou can ad d licens es to the Acronis Licen se Server in the comm and line mode. 1. Run cmd.exe (Windows Command Prompt) 2. Go to the folder w here Acronis Lice nse Server is install ed. By default, it is Prog ram[...]

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    © Acronis, Inc 29 3.7 Installati on and setup of A cronis PXE Server Acronis P XE Ser ver allow s the network booting of t he Acronis Snap De ploy Agent, Acronis Master Image Creat or or Preinstallation Environment on ta rget computers. Using Acronis PXE Server consider abl y reduce s the time required for boo ting the compu ters as compared to us[...]

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    30 © Acro nis, Inc In some BIO S versio ns, yo u have to save cha nges to B IOS aft er enabli ng the net work int erface card so that the card appear s in the list of boot devices. If the h ardware has mult iple network i nterface car ds, make sure that th e card s upported by the BIOS has the ne twork ca ble plug ged in. 3.7 .3 Setting up the PXE[...]

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    © Acronis, Inc 31 To install Acro nis Snap De ploy Ma nagement Agent : 1. Run the Ac r onis Snap De ploy setup program 2. Click I nstall Acro nis Sna p Deploy Manageme nt A gent 3. Follow the Install Wiza rd instructions on the s creen 4. The wizard will ask yo u for Acr onis Lic ense Serv er . Brow se to the ser ver, or enter its name or IP addre[...]

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    32 © Acro nis, Inc 3. 12 Using A cronis License Server This s ection d oes n ot describe steps of the i nstallation procedure. It contains gener al informat ion necessa ry for underst andi ng Acroni s Lic ense Ser ver an d covers more ope rations w ith licenses than described in 3 .5.2 Adding licenses using Acronis Licen se Server Management Conso[...]

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    © Acronis, Inc 33 You have 10 server licen ses and 5 w or k stat ion licenses Right - clic k on the c olumn h eadings bar to ch oose the d etails to display: Product Nam e, Serial Number, Import Date, Expirat ion Date and Total number o f licenses assigned to ea ch serial number, as w ell as how many of them are availabl e (i.e. f ree) and u sed. [...]

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    34 © Acro nis, Inc 3.12 .3 Remo ving licenses To completel y remove a licen se from the Ac r onis License Server, select it from the list of available licenses and click Remove L icense on t he sideba r. 3.12 .4 Using the Acronis License Ser ver Management To ol, The Acr onis Lic ense Server Ma nageme nt To ol is a comma nd - line utility for cont[...]

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    © Acronis, Inc 35 4 . Using Acronis Snap Depl oy Management Console 4 .1 Connections 4.1.1 Connec t to a local machine When sta rted, Acr onis Sna p Deploy Manage ment Con sole connect s to the local m achine if there is a manage able Acronis Sna p Deploy compo nent on this ma chine . You can mana ge any A cronis ser ver or Acronis Snap Dep loy Ma[...]

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    36 © Acro nis, Inc Manage files – connect to A cronis Snap Deplo y Manag ement Ag ent Execute Ap plications - c onnect to Acroni s Snap Dep loy Mana gement A gent . 4 . 2 Install ati on and update of A cr onis components on remote computers The follow ing c omp onent s of Acronis Snap De ploy can be installed remotely: - Acronis O S Deplo y Serv[...]

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    © Acronis, Inc 37 4. 3 Browsing logs To vie w operat ion logs of t he Acro nis OS De ploy Serv er or Acro nis PXE Se rver, c onnect t he console to the server. Logs are displa yed in the lower part of t he console window. The log browsing window can be acces sed by s electi ng T ools - > Sh ow log . The log bro wsing wi ndow c ontains tw o pane[...]

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    38 © Acro nis, Inc 5. Creating A cronis bo ot able media Acronis Snap Dep loy has th ree boot able comp onents t hat ca n boot and perform opera tions on a ny PC - compatible hardwar e, including bare meta l and computers w ith non - supported file systems. The compone nts ar e: - Acronis S nap D eploy A gent (boots on a target computer to enable [...]

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    © Acronis, Inc 39 No au to sta rt - t he Acronis loader w ill disp lay the boot menu and wait f or someone to selec t whethe r to boot the OS or one of the Acr onis com pon ent s. Bootin g from HDD – the operating sys tem, if pres ent on the bo oting c omputer’ s hard disk, will start after the spe cified time runs out. This option is designed[...]

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    40 © Acro nis, Inc can slow down the deployment. If you choose to sa ve the age nt’s log , the log will be available on the deploy server in : Docume nts and Se ttings All Users Application Data Acronis DeployServer AgentsLogs. 3. Select th e type of bootabl e media to cr eate. You c an: - create CD, DV D, diskettes or other b ootabl[...]

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    © Acronis, Inc 41 Acronis Snap Deploy boo tabl e compone nts ar e based on Lin ux kernel and eq uippe d with the Linux system a nd devic e drive rs. Acroni s regularly supplements the driver set with drivers for new devices. However, th ere may be a chance of drivers being incompatible with your hardware and the bo otable compone nt cannot start, [...]

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    42 © Acro nis, Inc 6. Configuring P XE Server You can access Acro nis PXE server configura tion in the following wa ys: - when cre ating A cronis bootable media - when cre ating b ootable media for custom d eployment mode - using dire ct server configur ation . To perform the direct PXE server co nfiguration: 1. Start A cronis Snap Dep loy Manag e[...]

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    © Acronis, Inc 43 7. T aking an image To be able to deploy a system, you need to create the desired s ystem confi guration an d save the image of th e system hard disk on a network share, detachable o r removabl e media. Acronis Snap Deploy also supports im ages taken with the Acronis True Image pr oducts family, including password prote cted imag[...]

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    44 © Acro nis, Inc Offline imaging means t hat the master system is stopp ed and the master computer boots into Acro nis (or PE) envir o nment . 1. Install Acro nis Snap De ploy M anageme nt Consol e . 2. Do one of t he foll owing: Create bootabl e media with Ac ronis Master I mage Creator or Install Acronis PXE Se rver, connect the console to the[...]

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    © Acronis, Inc 45 P rom p t for configu ring the m aster im ag e creator T he image c reator can be p re - configured to apply the default n etwork settings autom atically on timeout . The manual configurat ion is needed if auto config uration is not possible (no DHC P server o n the networ k) or does not succe ed. To configure t he netw ork co nn[...]

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    46 © Acro nis, Inc M aster I m age Creation W iz ard: w e lcom e w ind ow 8. In this window, clic k Next and go to step 7.5.1 Disks or pa rtitions to image . 7. 4 Star ting onl ine i m a gi ng Online imaging means tha t the master syste m is imaged live (wit hout reboot or suspe nding operation s). Onl ine imaging can be performed remo tely when e[...]

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    © Acronis, Inc 47 I f your operating system and its loader reside on different partition s, always include both partitions in the ima ge. The partit ions must also be deployed together; otherwise there is a high risk that the opera ting system will not st art. Sel ect d is k s an d partitio n s to im ag e 7.5.2 Image name and locati on Acronis Ma [...]

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    48 © Acro nis, Inc Selecting t he im a ge location 7.5.3 Setting optio ns Set the optio ns for creating the master image. 1. [OP TIONAL] Passw ord for the ima ge The preset is no passw ord. Protect the image with a password to prev ent unauthorized deploy ment. 2 . Com pression l evel The preset is Nor mal . The data c ompression level for the i m[...]

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    © Acronis, Inc 49 Sel ecti ng the data com pr ession level 3 . [FOR ONLINE IMAGI NG ONLY] Im age cr eation priority The pres et is Low . The prior ity of any proces s runni ng in a syste m dete rmines the amou nt of CPU usage and system resources allocate d to that process. Decrea sing the ima ge creation priority will fre e more resources for oth[...]

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    50 © Acro nis, Inc You also can select Fixed s ize and enter th e desired f ile size or select it from t he drop - down li st. The image will then be split into multiple files of the specif ied size. This come s in handy when creat ing an image that you plan t o bur n to multiple CD - R/RW, DVD - R/RW o r DVD+R/ RW later o n. Creating images d ire[...]

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    © Acronis, Inc 51 8. Checking the mast er image To be assur ed that a master i mage is not damaged , you ca n check i ts int egrity. 1. Connect to a comp uter whe re Acro nis Snap Deploy Ma nageme nt Agent is install ed. 2. Select Check mas ter ima ge . 3. Follow the wizard’s in structions to select the ima ge. 4. Click Pr oceed in t he summ ary[...]

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    52 © Acro nis, Inc 9. Deploy ment templa tes A deploy ment template is a set of conf iguration p arameters of the deploymen t operation. This includes: 1. A path to the master i mage 2. The op eration mode (mu lticast or unicas t, how to han dle the target dis k free s pace etc .) 3. Settings to be appli ed to the deploy ed systems (DNS names, use[...]

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    © Acronis, Inc 53 - on DVD+R /RW, DV D - R/RW, CD - R/RW loaded i n the deploy server media dri ve. The bes t practice is k eeping images on t he deploy server hard driv e. This minimizes n etwork traff ic during deployment. The imag e created on removable med ia has to fit into one media disk. To deploy an image spread over sev eral CDs, DVDs o r[...]

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    54 © Acro nis, Inc Sel ecti ng a disk from t h e m a st er i m a ge The further st eps will depend on how man y partitions you sele ct . If you deploy one part ition, it is assumed that the ta rget disk has partition s and you will have t o select the target partition , to dep loy o ver it . O ther pa rtitions w ill remain untouc hed. The active p[...]

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    © Acronis, Inc 55 Selecting dis k partitio n s to d epl oy 9.2.3 Target disk a nd partition sel ection Select t h e target disk for deployment. By defa ult, the i mage will be de ployed to the hard disk, whic h is specified in BIOS as num ber 1 (0Х80). Selecting t he tar get dis k Select the target parti tion to deploy , if one p artition w as se[...]

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    56 © Acro nis, Inc When deploying a wh ole disk or multiple pa rtitions, you will not see t he target partition selectio n window. In this case , the target disk partitioni ng will not be preserved . Selecting t he tar get par tition 9.2.4 User a ccount s [OPTIONAL] Specify loca l u ser accounts t hat you want to create on the target c o mputers i[...]

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    © Acronis, Inc 57 N am in g the co m put ers To gen erate unique names fo r target computer s use wild car d s as follows. {sta rt} {1} This will generate nam es 1, 2, 3… N {sta rt,c ount } {1 ,5} This will generate nam es 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Tex t{star t} Name{1} This will generate names Name1, Name2 , Name3…NameN Tex t{star t,cou nt} Name{1,5} Thi[...]

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    58 © Acro nis, Inc 9.2 .6 Netw ork settings Configure the Internet Protocol (IP) settings for the target compu ters . You have option s to preserve the master sy stem network settin gs, to obtain IP addre sses automatically from DHCP server or to specify a range of sta tic IP’s, subnet mask and de fault gat e way in ca se you ne twor k does no t[...]

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    © Acronis, Inc 59 9.2.7 Securit y identifiers Acronis Snap Deploy ca n genera te unique se curit y ident ifiers (S IDs) for t he targe t comput ers. This option is normally e nabled. The S ID can remain unc hanged if there i s no comp uter wit h the same SID in the s ame workgroup or domain. Also , it is recom mended not to chang e the SID if the [...]

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    60 © Acro nis, Inc Acronis Universal Deploy will help you create a boo tabl e Windows cl one on di ffere nt hardware by automatic ally installing the necessary system drivers . Us e Acronis Universa l Deploy when deploying Windows to a computer wit h a dissimilar processor, di fferent motherboard or other mass storage device th an in the i maged s[...]

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    © Acronis, Inc 61 Addin g a driver repository 9.2.11 Deplo yment options Select t he optio ns for the deployment op eration. You may select Use d efault options or Se t the opt ions manually . I f the latter is t he case, the settings will be a pplied only to the current deploymen t template. Alterna tively, you can edit the de fault opti ons . To[...]

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    62 © Acro nis, Inc T he full list of deploym e nt option s Action a fter d epl oyme nt The preset is Sh utdown . Choose whether to turn o ff or restart th e target computer af ter the dep loymen t and all assoc iated operations, sched uled in this wizard ( transferring files, executing appli cations) are complet ed. Disk utiliza tion The pres et i[...]

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    © Acronis, Inc 63 Lice nsi ng Network u tilization The preset is Mul ticast . You can c hoose the data trans fer mode for the deployment. With the Multicast tr ansfer mode, Acronis OS Deplo y Serve r sends da ta to a group of re cipients simult aneousl y. Using t he Unica st trans fer mode , the server sends a cop y of the data to each recipient ([...]

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    64 © Acro nis, Inc Adju stin g netw ork u tiliz ation Acronis Snap Dep loy uses I nternet Group Mana gement Protocol (IGMP) for the multica sting. Therefor e, all the n etwork hardware (rou ters and/o r switches) mu st be I GMP - ca pab le and cor rectl y configured. The speci fic information on configuring a ny particular route r or switch is usu[...]

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    © Acronis, Inc 65 M A C filtering 9.2.12 Com ments and sum mary [OPTIONAL] It is recommended that you p rovide a template name and a c omment for eas y identification of the tem plate . T ype in a comm ent Check yo ur settings in t he summ ary window and cli ck Sa ve .[...]

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    66 © Acro nis, Inc T he sum m ary w indow[...]

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    © Acronis, Inc 67 10. S t andalone deploy ment St andalone dep loyment is deplo yment on a co mputer isolated fr om a network or included in a network without A cronis Snap Dep loy infra struct ure, to be e xact, w ithout A cronis OS Deplo y Server . Standa lone deployment is performed locally using the bootable Acronis Standalone Utility. The Acr[...]

  • Page 68

    68 © Acro nis, Inc 6. Confi gure the deploy ment operation as described in 9. 2.1 – 9.2. 12 . Note tha t the template cannot be saved because the standalone utility doe s not access t he Acro nis OS De ploy S erver. 7. Run the ma nual de ployme nt.[...]

  • Page 69

    © Acronis, Inc 69 11 . Manual deploy ment Manual de ployme nt presum es that you first bo ot up t he tar get comput ers and the n apply t he deploymen t template. Th e deployment wi ll start immediately on c licking Proc eed in the deployment wizard. 11 .1 Booting up the targets To perfor m manual or ev ent - driven dep loyment you need to boot th[...]

  • Page 70

    70 © Acro nis, Inc While creating boota ble media or uploading A cronis S nap Dep loy Agent on the PX E server , the agent ca n be co nfi gured to start automatically on timeout. 5. The agent has to e stablish network c onnecti on to be a ble to con nect to A cronis O S Deplo y Server . A dialog box comes up suggesting that you configu re t he net[...]

  • Page 71

    © Acronis, Inc 71 6. W hen the A cronis S nap De ploy Agent starts and the target computer i s ready for deplo yment, the target co mputer displays : Acronis S nap Deploy Ag ent: r eady for deploym ent The progress bar is frozen because the comput er is waiting f or deploymen t. 11 .2 Starting depl oy m ent 1. Connect the consol e to t he Ac ronis[...]

  • Page 72

    72 © Acro nis, Inc 3. Click Manual De ploymen t on the si debar. 4. Select th e computers to deploy to fro m the list of the connected compu ters. 5. Select th e previ ously cr eate d deployment tem plate or conf igure the dep loyment operation as described in 9.2.1 – 9.2.12 . 6. Review the dep loymen t operation su mmary and cl ick Proc eed to [...]

  • Page 73

    © Acronis, Inc 73 12. Ev ent - driv en deployment Deploy me nt can be configured t o start when the predefin ed number of comp uters is ready . The Acronis O S Deplo y Server c ounts how many comp uters have co nnected to the ser ver and s tarts multicas ting when th e desired nu mber of computer s is reached. The admini strat or can spe ci fy a t[...]

  • Page 74

    74 © Acro nis, Inc T riggering cond iti on s f or even t - dri ven d epl oy m en t 8. Select th e previous ly created deploym ent template or configure the deployment o peration as described in 9.2.1 – 9.2.12 . 9. Review the dep loymen t operation su mmary and cl ick Proc eed to commit the ev ent - drive n deploymen t. Th e Deploym ent tab will [...]

  • Page 75

    © Acronis, Inc 75 11. As target computer s connect to the deploy ser ver, they appear in the upper l ist “Com puter s available for d eploym ent” . While t he deploy server is waiting, you are able to: - Cancel e vent - driven d eployment - Start the manual depl oyment on the available computers (click Manual de ploymen t on the sidebar) As so[...]

  • Page 76

    76 © Acro nis, Inc 13 . Scheduled deploy ment Deployme nt can be run on a schedule. Sche duling pre sumes that when t he sche duled time come s, the program will power on the computers with predefined MAC addresses using the BIOS Wake On LAN (WOL) func tionality. Compute rs in othe r subnet s can be woke n through a W OL prox y agent de livered w [...]

  • Page 77

    © Acronis, Inc 77 Control Panel - > System - > Devic e Manag er - > Network a dapters - > sel ect the NIC - > Proper ties - > A dvanced : Enable PM E - > Enabl ed Wake On Li nk Sett ings - > O S Controlle d Wake On Se ttings - > Wake On Mag ic Pac ket. 1 3 .2 Scheduled deplo y ment within one subnet When th e scheduled t[...]

  • Page 78

    78 © Acro nis, Inc 10. Select Wake - on - LAN . 11. The nex t window s uggests that you tune the PXE se rver to us e with the deploy ment server you are connecte d to. The goa l of this setting is to boot the woke n machine into Acr onis Sna p De ploy Agent even if an other component on th e PXE server is configu red to start automatically . The t[...]

  • Page 79

    © Acronis, Inc 79 T riggering conditi on s fo r schedul ed deploym e nt 13. Select the d eployment template . 14. Set up the deployment schedu le : - One time on ly – the task will be exec uted onc e at the specif ied time and d ay - Daily (or several time s a day) - the task will be e xecuted once a day or once in severa l days - Weekly - the t[...]

  • Page 80

    80 © Acro nis, Inc Sche du led dep loy m en t i n o th er s ubne t using Acroni s W OL Pr oxy Steps: 1. Install Acro nis Snap De ploy M anageme nt Consol e and Acronis Lice nse Server. Imp ort licenses to the license server. I nstall Acronis O S Depl oy Server a nd Acroni s PXE Ser ver. 2. To enable the Acronis PXE Server to w ork i n other sub ne[...]

  • Page 81

    © Acronis, Inc 81 11. Import or type i n the list of MAC add resses 12. Select Wake - on -L AN Pro xy and type i n the Acr onis WO L Proxy’s IP address and t he access credentials . Test t he credentials. Specifying Acr onis W OL P rox y 13. The nex t window s uggests that you t une the P XE ser ver to use with the de ploym ent ser ver you are c[...]

  • Page 82

    82 © Acro nis, Inc Once a deployment ta sk is scheduled, it appea rs on th e Schedul ed De ploymen t Tasks tab. A task scheduled for per iodical execution stays on the deploy server until you delete it. A task schedul ed for one - time executio n will disappear as soon as t he execution is comple ted. Acronis OS De ploy S erv er: th e de plo ym en[...]

  • Page 83

    © Acronis, Inc 83 14. Custom deploy ment mode Acronis Snap Dep loy ca n be con figured in s uch a way tha t users will be able to de ploy and re - deploy their co mputers with one click on t he boot m enu. 14. 1 Understanding custom deploy ment An admin istrator c reates a set of depl oyment templates that meet the o rganization ’s needs and ass[...]

  • Page 84

    84 © Acro nis, Inc T he custom bo ot m en u A u se r can start d eploym ent w ith any of the tw o t em pla tes or bo ot in to W indo w s T o fin d the targ et templ ate in custo m boot menu templ ates l ist, pre ss a let ter ke y which correspon ds to the fir st let ter of the tem plat e name . T he cursor will jump on a t empl ate, whi ch nam e b[...]

  • Page 85

    © Acronis, Inc 85 14. 3 Setting up the custom deploy ment mode Steps: 1. Install Acro nis Snap De ploy M anageme nt Consol e and Ac r onis License Ser ver. Import licenses to the license server. I nstall Acronis OS Deplo y Server a nd Acr onis PXE Serve r . 2. Create bootabl e media with Ac ronis Master Image Creator . 3. Confi gure and image th e[...]

  • Page 86

    86 © Acro nis, Inc Acronis OS Deploy Serv er is in cust om deploym ent m ode 12. The Custom D eploym ent tab shows t he status of de ployment operations perf ormed on users’ requests. The tab is empty if none of the u sers are deploy ing at th e mom ent . While th e deploy serv er is in custom depl oyment mode, y ou are able to : - c hange par a[...]

  • Page 87

    © Acronis, Inc 87 14. 4 Changing parameters of the custom deploy ment mode To change the te mpla tes or the boot men u password, used in t he custom deployment mo de, you wil l have to re - configur e the custom deplo yment mode. 1. If some user - initiated de ployment operation s are active, either stop t he operations or w ait until the operatio[...]

  • Page 88

    88 © Acro nis, Inc 15. Co mmand l ine and scripting und er Win PE and Bart PE Windows Preinsta llation Environment (Win PE) is a minimal Windows system based on the Wi ndows XP Professional, t he Windo ws Ser ver 200 3 or the W indows Vista kernels. Wi n PE is commonly used by OEMs and co rporations for deployment, test , diagnosti c and system re[...]

  • Page 89

    © Acronis, Inc 89 T he P E buil der c om es w ith Acronis Sna p Deplo y M anag em ent Con sole The PE Buil der can a dd the Acronis Sna p Deplo y comma nd line utility to a Bart PE, Win PE 1.0 or Win PE 2.0 i mage. To be able to add the comman d line uti lity to a Win PE 2.0 image (a .WIM file or a fol der with PE 2 .0 unpacked files) you must hav[...]

  • Page 90

    90 © Acro nis, Inc Specify path to the dest ination folder of Ba rt PE builder 4. Speci fy the full path to t he result ing file i ncluding t he fil e name. 5 . Check your se ttings in the summary screen an d click Procee d . 6 . Burn the . ISO to C D or D VD using a third - party t ool or cop y to a flash drive. For how t o upload the . ISO to Ac[...]

  • Page 91

    © Acronis, Inc 91 6 . Do one of t he follow ing, d epending o n your ch oi ce in step 5 : Specify p ath to t he I386 folder or Specif y path to t he Windo ws AIK folder 7. Check yo ur setti ngs in the s ummary s creen a nd clic k Proceed . A PE image based on Win PE 2.0 requires at least 256MB RAM to work. The recommen ded memory si ze for PE 2.0 [...]

  • Page 92

    92 © Acro nis, Inc deploy Deploys disks and partitions, includ ing the MBR, from an image /filename:[file name] /password:[password] /net_user:[username] /net_password:[password] /oss_numbers /reboot /log:[file name] /log_net_user:[remote user] /log_net_password:[passwo rd] /harddisk:[disk number] /partition:[partition number] /target_harddisk:[di[...]

  • Page 93

    © Acronis, Inc 93 /differential Set the imag e type to differentia l. If not specified or t here is no basic full image, a full image will be creat ed Any /compression:[0…9] Specify the data compression level. It range s from 0 to 9 a nd is se t to 3 by defau lt Any /split:[size in MB] Spl it the image into parts of the specified size Gen eral o[...]

  • Page 94

    94 © Acro nis, Inc /partition:[partition number] Specifies the pa rtitions to incl ude into the image file. The list of available partit ions is provided by /list . Pa rtition numbers ar e specified as <disk n umber> - <part ition number >, e.g.: /partition:1 - 1,1 - 2,3 -1 /ra w Use this option to create an image of a disk (partition)[...]

  • Page 95

    © Acronis, Inc 95 /type:[active | p rimary | logical] Sets the deploy ed partition to acti ve, primary or logical, if possible (for examp le, there c annot be mor e than fou r primary p artition s on the disk. ) Setting a partition to active alw ays sets it t o primary, while a partition set t o primary may s tay ina ctive. If the ty pe is n ot sp[...]

  • Page 96

    96 © Acro nis, Inc list /filename:[file_name] With th is option, t he image content i s displayed. When li sting im age co ntent , partit ion numbers m ay not coi ncide with those in t he drives/par titions list, if the image does not contain all the disk partitio ns. For example , if the image conta ins partitions 2- 3 and 2 - 5, they will be lis[...]

  • Page 97

    © Acronis, Inc 97 Sample scr ipt: setlocal SET IMG_PATH= image_server images SET TMP_DRV_LETTER=h: net use %TMP_DRV_LETTER% %IMG_PATH% echo off for /f "tokens=1 - 13 delims= " %%a in ('ipconfig /all') do ( IF %%a EQU Physical ( for /f "tokens=1 - 3 delims= " %%a in ('echo %%l') do ( IF EXIST %TMP_DRV_LE[...]

  • Page 98

    98 © Acro nis, Inc net use %TMP_DRV_LETTER% %IMG_PATH% echo off for /f "tokens=1 - 13 delims= " %%a in ('ipconfig /all') do ( IF %%a EQU Physical ( for /f "tokens=1 - 3 delims= " %%a in ('echo %%l') do ( echo IMAGE FILE: %%a.tib asdcmd.exe /create /filename:%TM P_DRV_LETTER% %%a.tib /harddisk:1 /compressio[...]

  • Page 99

    © Acronis, Inc 99 16. Managing a rem ote computer 16.1 F ile manag emen t on a remote comp uter The following operations wi th files and f olders are available o n remote c omputers throu gh Acronis Snap Depl oy Manage ment Agent: - creating and editing text files (for example bat ch files or scripts) - copying to the clipboard - pasting from the [...]

  • Page 100

    100 © Acro nis, Inc Create folder Select th e target fol der - > Creat e new f older - > Ty pe in the new folder name - > OK . Copy fil e or fol der to cli pboard Select th e file or f older - > Co py . You can copy file s and fold ers on the remote computer and past e them to yo ur loc a l machine and vi ce versa . Paste fi le or f ol[...]

  • Page 101

    © Acronis, Inc 101 Start para m eters Manually la ter – the t ask w ill be saved, but not launc hed automatically. You will be able to la unch it later One ti me only – the task will be ex ecuted onc e at the speci fied ti me and date Upon even t : Ap pli cat io n ca n be ex ec ut ed on ev en t An applic ation can b e executed at sy stem s tar[...]

  • Page 102

    102 © Acro nis, Inc After t he specif ied p eriod of time ela psed : Set th e tim e i nt erv al be tw een ex ecu ti ng app licat ion Daily – the task will be exec uted onc e a day or once in sev eral days Weekly – the task wi ll be executed o nce a week or onc e in several weeks on the selec ted day Monthly – the task will be executed o nce [...]

  • Page 103

    © Acronis, Inc 103 Executi ng applicati on is schedu led You can run, edit, rename or delete the task u sing the toolbar buttons. Editing is performed in the same way as crea tion, however, the earlie r selected options will be se t, so you onl y have to e nter t he change s. Deleting or editing a task does not affec t the current task exec ution.[...]