The Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.0 course builds your knowledge of the Symantec Ghost Solution Suite, enabling you to deploy systems across your network and maintain client computers effectively and efficiently.
Skills Gained
By the end of this course, you should be able to:
Build boot packages that can be used to create and restore images, connect to a multicast server, or boot to DOS.
Manually create and restore images using the DOSbased graphical user interfaces for both Ghost and DeployCenter.
Use Ghost's command line interface and DeployCenter's scripting language to automate image creation and restoration processes.
Apply best practices for creating a master image file to deploy systems across a network.
Use the multicasting technologies included in the Ghost Solution Suite to deploy images to systems across a network.
Use the Ghost Console to organize and manage client computers.
Capture user profile settings from a computer and restore them to the same computer or to another computer.
Use Ghost AutoInstall to capture changes made on a single Windows computer, and then use the Ghost Console to quickly deploy these changes to other machines across a network.
Collect information from machines managed by the Ghost Console and use this information to generate software and hardware inventory reports so you can target specific machine configurations for tasks.
Use the GDisk utility included with Symantec Ghost to assist you in retiring aging systems.
Who Can Benefit
This course is for network and system administrators, IT managers, IT supportersonnel, and other network operations staff who are responsible for managing the software and hardware configurations for their organizations and who need to understand how to perform ongoing deployment, backup, and restore operations for computer operating systems and applications.
Prerequisites
None.
Hands-On
This course includes practical exercises that enable you to test your new skills and begin to transfer them into your working environment.
Code:
GHOST-2.0
Length:
4 days
Type:
Instructor-Led
Certified By:
Symantec :: Veritas
Tuition:
$2,800
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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
Using Boot Packages
Methods for Using Boot Packages
Creating a QuickBoot Executable
Configuring the Ghost PXE Environment
Configuring the DeployCenter PXE Environment
Creating and Restoring Images Using a DOS-Based Interface
Methods of Creating Images
Determining an Imaging Strategy
Creating an Image Using the Ghost DOS GUI
Restoring an Image Using the Ghost DOS GUI
Creating an Image Using the DeployCenter DOS GUI
Restoring an Image Using the DeployCenter DOS GUI
Automating the Creation and Restoration of Images
Automating Symantec Ghost
Automating ImageCenter
Additional Automation Tools
Creating a Master Image File
Issues Involved in Deploying Images on a Network
How Microsoft Sysprep Resolves Image Deployment Issues
Building and Optimizing the Reference Computer
Removing Hardware and System Information from the Reference Computer
Creating a Master Image of the Reference Computer
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
Using AutoInstall Packages to Automate Post-Deployment Customizations
How AutoInstall Works
Setting Up the AutoInstall Model Computer
Generating an AutoInstall Installation Script
Customizing AutoInstall Packages
Validating AutoInstall Packages
Integrating and Configuring Windows Desktop Computers in the Ghost Console
Purpose of the Ghost Console
Overview of Ghost Console Tasks
Installing the Ghost Client Agent on Computers
Assigning a Network Driver to Clients
Grouping Clients in the Ghost Console
Setting Global Properties for Managed Clients
Configuring the Ghost Console to Use the Image Repository
Creating Tasks in the Ghost Console
Populating the Ghost Console with Client Information
Using the Ghost Console to Create and Restore Images
Overview of Imaging Tasks
Creating and Running Imaging Tasks
Using the Ghost Console to Migrate OS-Based User Profiles
Overview of Profile Migrations
Capturing a User Profile
Restoring a User Profile
Using the Ghost Console to Deploy AutoInstall Packages
Benefits of Deploying AutoInstall Packages to Remote Computers
Creating an AutoInstall Task
Executing an AutoInstall Task
Using Client Inventory Reports in the Ghost Console
Building and Interpreting Client Inventory Reports
Creating Dynamic Machine Groups Based on Inventory Reports
Assigning Tasks to a Dynamic Group
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