Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.0.1

Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.0.1

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Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.0 provides rapid and reliable Windows Vista migration. Ghost is the industry?s most widely-used corporate imaging, deployment and system management solution. Ghost can assist in all phases of Vista migration and enhances Microsoft?s own best practices by providing a single management console in addition to significantly accelerated imaging and deployment.



New Features

The industry's most widely-used corporate imaging, deployment and management solution includes easy-to-use imaging and deployment, OS and user data and settings migration, software distribution, hardware and software inventory, and secure system retirement.



Microsoft Windows Vista and 64-Bit OS Support

Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.0 enhances and leverages Microsoft's own best practices for Vista migration. Version 2.0 was primarily designed to support Windows Vista and ease the burden of migrating PC's and user data and settings. Support for Windows Vista and 64-Bit OS's

Fast file- or sector-based imaging

Single management console for all migration tasks

Multicast technology to rapidly and reliably deploy Vista to hundreds of systems simultaneously

Built-in inventory filters to quickly and easily identify 'Vista ready' machines

Create hardware independent Vista images using Ghost and SysPrep



Integrated System, User Data and Settings Migration

A successful OS migration / deployment project includes ensuring that existing user data and settings remain intact after changes have been made. The integration of User Migration in version 2.0 allows you to create a single task to generate a baseline corporate image, capture user data and settings, deploy the new OS, perform post-deployment configuration, and then restore the user data and settings - all from a single, centralized console. Quickly and easily migrate PC user data and settings

User migration across the network or peer-to-peer (systems not connected to network)

Peer-to-peer utilizes access rights and transport encryption to provide secure transfer and storage

Built-in migration wizard to simplify user migration

Migration can be administrator or user-initiated and supports extensive administrative configuration options

Supports extensive range of popular applications well beyond Symantec and Microsoft

Simplified Image Editing and ManagementWith Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.0 it is possible to easily edit any image, regardless of the underlying file system type. The ability to edit NTFS, FAT and EXT2/3 Ghost images provides simplified image management. This is achieved by reducing the need to maintain multiple image files and making it easy to keep image files current and up to date. Edit NTFS, FAT and EXT2/3 Ghost images

Easily add, remove and modify files and folders within Ghost images



Generic Variable-based Tasks

Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.0 now supports the use of generic variables for tasks. A Parameter, such as image name or target computers, can be specified at the time of task execution. Generic tasks simplify task management and provide significant flexibility as they can be re-used over and over again simply by supplying different parameter values. Parameters can be supplied at the time of task execution

Generic tasks can be re-used over and over again

Minimizes overall number of tasks required and simplifies management



GUID Partition Table (GPT) Support

GUID Partition Table (GPT) support provides the ability to image drives larger than 2TB. GPT uses modern logical block addressing (LBA) in place of the cylinder-head-sector (CHS) addressing used with MBR. 2TB Limit of MBR is no longer a constraint

Four primary partition limitation of MBR no longer applies



Preconfigured RAID array support under WinPEA

dministrators now can use Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.0 to create and deploy images of hardware RAID arrays under WinPE. Administrators are able to create images of partitions that are much larger than any single drive can provide