PowerDeploy Suite 2.0
The PowerDeploy Suite includes PowerQuest DeployCenter, PowerQuest Migration Manager, DataGone, and a centralised and secure Web interface console known as PowerQuest ControlCenter ST. From anywhere in the world you can create, schedule, and execute management tasks including imaging, deploying, restoring, and managing networked systems.
DeployCenter can deploy Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Windows NT Server machines around the organisation. It can even automatically convert a PDC (Primary Domain Controller) to a BDC (Backup Domain Controller) when you restore the image file. The Deploy Centre uses a variety of features to deploy software images:
Virtual Floppy: Eliminates the need for boot disks by providing a DOS floppy boot environment on the client computer´s hard disk.
DeltaDeploy: Automates software distribution, installation and configuration across the network and Internet. Note: DeltaDeploy does not support Windows XP/2000.
PXE and Wake-On-LAN: Introduce new systems to the network without having to physically visit them through support for Intel´s Wired for Management technology.
ImageCenter: Create, deploy, and restore exact images of your hard disk or partitions within minutes.
SmartSector Technology: Copies only the sectors containing data thus minimising wasted disk space and preserving your system optimisations and Windows performance enhancements.
Migration Manager complements the deployment process by minimising the task of system migration. It also allows IT professionals to quickly and efficiently create a standard operating environment for your organisation. The results are reduced downtime, less impact on user productivity and the ability to easily migrate system, network and Windows settings. Objects that Migration Manager can transfer include the following:
• Desktop settings, including Active Desktop, colours, desktop icons, display, screen saver, and Wallpaper.
• Personality Settings, including printers (local and network), Start Menu, keyboard, mouse, and user profiles.
• Connectivity Settings, including computer description and name, DNS configuration, TCP/IP configuration, mapped drives and shared folders, and drives.
The DataGone application offers data removal so sensitive information is removed before a machine is moved/sold or redeployed. Data Gone offers a choice of five write methods for overwriting data, including:
• The NSA method of writing two random patterns followed by zero to each byte on the drive.
• The DoD Method, which is to write a random value, then its complement, then a different random value to each byte on the drive.
Data Gone runs in DOS mode to ensure no other operating system or program is running while DataGone executes.
ControlCenter ST is the secure, Web-based console that acts as the central point to intelligently create, schedule, and execute PC management tasks, including imaging, deploying, restoring, and managing networked systems. It provides Scheduled Task Execution to execute a task now or at a later time for any client or group of clients. You can also set these tasks to repeat at regular times such as daily, weekly, or monthly. ControlCenter ST provides information on the status of the execution of tasks on client systems, including automatic e-mail notification when the task is complete, as well as a history of scheduled tasks.
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