Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.5
Description
Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.5
Course Outline
Computer Lifecycle Management and Symantec Products
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Overview of Computer Lifecycle Management
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Symantec Products for Managing the Computer Lifecycle
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Exercise: Self-assessment
Ghost Solution Suite Product Overview
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What is the Ghost Solution Suite?
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Ghost Solution Suite Components
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Ghost Solution Suite Topography
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System Requirements
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Supported File Systems
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Ghost Solution Suite Terminology
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Exercise: Self-assessment
Installing the Ghost Solution Suite
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Installing Symantec Ghost
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Installing DeployCenter
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Creating an Image Repository
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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
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Purpose of Boot Packages
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Overview of Boot Packages
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Requirements for Creating a Ghost Solution Suite Boot
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Package
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Differences Between the Ghost and DeployCenter
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Boot Package Builders
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Creating Boot Packages with the Ghost Boot Wizard
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Creating Boot Packages with the DeployCenter Boot
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Disk Builder
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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
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Methods for Using Boot Packages
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Creating QuickBoot Executables
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PXE Components in Ghost Solution Suite
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Configuring the 3Com Boot Services PXE Environment
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Configuring the DeployCenter PXE Environment
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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
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Methods of Creating Images
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Determining an Imaging Strategy
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Creating an Image Using the Ghost Pre-OS GUI
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Creating an Image Using the ImageCenter Pre-OS GUI
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Restoring an Image Using the Ghost Pre-OS GUI
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Restoring an Image Using the ImageCenter Pre-OS GUI
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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
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Issues Involved in Deploying Images on a Network
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How Microsoft Sysprep Resolves Image Deployment Issues
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Using Sysprep for Windows 2000/XP
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Using Sysprep for Windows Vista
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Creating a Master Image of the Reference Computer
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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
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Benefits and Challenges of Deploying an Image to Multiple
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Computers
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Overview of Multicasting
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Differences Between Ghost and DeployCenter Multicasting
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Using GhostCasting to Deploy Images
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Using PowerCasting to Deploy Images
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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
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Automating Symantec Ghost
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Automating ImageCenter
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Additional Automation Tools
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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
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How AutoInstall Works
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Setting Up the AutoInstall Model Computer
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Generating an AutoInstall Installation Script
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Customizing AutoInstall Packages
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Validating AutoInstall Packages
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Hands-on Labs: Creating a PE Builder AutoInstall package