Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.5

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Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.5

Course Outline

Computer Lifecycle Management and Symantec Products

Ghost Solution Suite Product Overview

Installing the Ghost Solution Suite

Installing Symantec Ghost
Installing DeployCenter
Creating an Image Repository
Hands-on Labs: Installing Symantec Ghost; modifying the Domain Controller to allow Ghost boot environments to access the network; installing Symantec DeployCenter; creating an image repository

Creating Boot Packages

Purpose of Boot Packages
Overview of Boot Packages
Requirements for Creating a Ghost Solution Suite Boot
Package
Differences Between the Ghost and DeployCenter
Boot Package Builders
Creating Boot Packages with the Ghost Boot Wizard
Creating Boot Packages with the DeployCenter Boot
Disk Builder
Hands-on Labs: Creating a Ghost WinPE Virtual Partition boot environment; creating a Ghost Linux Virtual Partition boot environment; creating a Ghost DOS Virtual Partition boot environment; creating a DeployCenter DOS Virtual Floppy Disk boot environment

Using Boot Packages

Methods for Using Boot Packages
Creating QuickBoot Executables
PXE Components in Ghost Solution Suite
Configuring the 3Com Boot Services PXE Environment
Configuring the DeployCenter PXE Environment
Hands-on Labs: Using a Ghost Linux ISO image to boot into a Linux imaging environment; using a WinPEbased Ghost One-click Virtual Partition to boot into a Windows PE imaging environment; using a Ghost DOS One-click Virtual Partition to boot into a DOS imaging environment; using a DeployCenter virtual floppy / QuickBoot executable; using PXE with Ghost; using PXE with DeployCenter

Creating and Restoring Images

Methods of Creating Images
Determining an Imaging Strategy
Creating an Image Using the Ghost Pre-OS GUI
Creating an Image Using the ImageCenter Pre-OS GUI
Restoring an Image Using the Ghost Pre-OS GUI
Restoring an Image Using the ImageCenter Pre-OS GUI
Hands-on Labs: Creating an image using the WinPEbased Ghost boot environment; creating an image using the DOS-based DeployCenter QuickBoot executable boot environment; restoring an image using a PXE-based Ghost boot environment; restoring an image using a PXE-based DeployCenter boot environment

Creating a Master Image File

Issues Involved in Deploying Images on a Network
How Microsoft Sysprep Resolves Image Deployment Issues
Using Sysprep for Windows 2000/XP
Using Sysprep for Windows Vista
Creating a Master Image of the Reference Computer
Hands-on Labs: Preparing to run Sysprep; optimizing the reference system; creating a WinPE-based Ghost ISO boot environment with the Deploy Anywhere driver database; using Ghost to create a master image file; using DeployCenter to create a master image file

Deploying Images

Benefits and Challenges of Deploying an Image to Multiple
Computers
Overview of Multicasting
Differences Between Ghost and DeployCenter Multicasting
Using GhostCasting to Deploy Images
Using PowerCasting to Deploy Images
Hands-on Labs: Using GhostCasting to deploy a master image to a client system; using PowerCasting to deploy a master image to a client system

Automating the Creation and Restoration of Images

Automating Symantec Ghost
Automating ImageCenter
Additional Automation Tools
Hands-on Labs: Automating the creation of images using Ghost; automating the restoration of images using Ghost; automating the creation of images using DeployCenter; automating the restoration of images using DeployCenter; automating the configuration of a new system; automating the creation of local backup partitions

Creating AutoInstall Packages to Automate Post- Deployment Customizations