Symantec Ghost Solution Suite manual

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    i What’sNewinGh ostSolutionSuite3.0 What’sNewin  Ghost Solu tion Suite 3.0 This document high lights some of the most i mpactful new features of Ghost Solution Suite 3. 0 For more comprehensive information, please view the Ghost Solution Suite product page or refer to the release notes[...]

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    ii What’sNewinGh ostSolutionSuite3.0 Table of Contents Introduction 1 General Enhancements and Improvements 2 New OS and Hard ware Support 2 Updated SQL Database Su pport 2 What’sNewforGSS2.5Administrators 3 Powerful New Cons ole 3 Manage More S ystems Mo re Efficiently 3 Organize Jobs in Cus tomizable Folder S [...]

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    Page 1 What’sNewinGh ostSolutionSuite3.0 Intr oduction Ghost Solution Suite 3.0 is a long awaited m ajor release that incorporates the best elements of Deployment Solution (DS) 6.9 and Ghost So lution Suite (GSS) 2 .5. This powerful new integrated offering extends the capabilities for operating system deployment, configuration, [...]

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    Page 2 What’sNewinGh ostSolutionSuite3.0 Gener alEnhancementsandImprovemen ts Ghost Solution Suite 3.0 has made a number of technological fixes and improvements based on numerous customer requ ests, including adding support for new o perating systems and hardware. Some of the new general enh ancements include: New OS an[...]

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    Page 3 What’sNewinGh ostSolutionSuite3.0 What ’ sNewf orGSS2.5Administr ator s Administrators familiar with Ghost Solution Suite 2.5 will be interested in the many features and enhancements brought to GSS from Deployment Solution’s p owerful console and integrated PXE server management. Bo th topics are [...]

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    Page 4 What’sNewinGh ostSolutionSuite3.0 Assign, Repeat, or Cancel J obs Simply and Effectively The new console simplifies assignment of jobs to computers by providing a drag-and- dr op interface within the GUI. An administrator can simply drag a computer to a job or drag a job to a computer in order to assign that job to that c[...]

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    Page 5 What’sNewinGh ostSolutionSuite3.0 Tailor Access to Jobs or Co mputers with Con sole Use r Account Permiss ions Console users and group s can be created in the GSS co nsole or imported fr om Act ive Directory. Ghost Solutions Suite 3 .0 provide s a security system based on associating job and computer objects with console [...]

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    Page 6 What’sNewinGh ostSolutionSuite3.0 PXE Server Integration The new console includes an integrated PXE server configuration tool, centralizing the management o f all local and remote PXE servers to sup ply network b oot images as ne eded across the environment. The PXE Server c onfiguration utilit y offers the f ollowing fea[...]

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    Page 7 What’sNewinGh ostSolutionSuite3.0 Offer Custom Boot Images Through the Net work Boot M enu GSS 3 .0 allows administrators to create many varieties o f boot images to offer co mputers through the network boot menu. B oot images can be created for custo m or generic computer hardware configurations and archi tectures, and t[...]

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    Page 8 What’sNewinGh ostSolutionSuite3.0 Easily Provis ion New Syste ms Us ing Init ial Deplo yment Jobs PXE Server can be used to offer Initial Deployment jobs to any computer that boots to the network and is unknown to the GSS console (no matching record in the database) . This greatly simplifies the initial deployment process[...]

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    Page 9 What’sNewinGh ostSolutionSuite3.0 What ’ sNewf orDeploymentSolution6.9Administr a tor s Administrators familiar with Deployment Solution 6.9 will be interested i n the enhancements brought to GSS 3.0 from the integrati on of existing DS 6.9 capabilities with p opular features from GSS 2.5 such as an in[...]

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    Page 10 What’sNewinGh ostSolutionSuite3.0 Integrated Ghost Recovery Kit GSS 3.0 als o inclu des the Ghost Recover y Kit, which allows VARs and system integrators to provide a recovery opti on to end use rs and customers. Using the Recover Kit you can create a recovery system that lets an end user quickly and simply recover a sy [...]

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    Page 11 What’sNewinGh ostSolutionSuite3.0 Organ ize Manage d Systems More Flexibly With Dynamic Machine Groups Dynamic groups allow flexible management of computers based on a wide range of filter criteria such as device manufacturer, amount of installed RA M, or department. A single computer can appear in multiple dynamic machi[...]