DS 7.1 Beta 1 has been released

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mark76
October 21st, 2009
You can download the product from the Altiris beta portal:
 
http://betanew.altiris.com/Login/tabid/61/Default.aspx?returnurl=%2fdefault.aspx
 
There are a number of new features with DS 7.1 Beta 1. Outlined below are some of the new features for this release:
  
* Deployment Solution Portal - unified deployment management functionality with drag and drop support
 
* PXE - for zero- touch bare metal deployments
 
* PreDefined Computers -
 
* Initial Deployment -
 
* DeployAnywhere Integration - native hardware independent imaging support
 
* Scripted OS Install
 
* Computer Personality Capture and Distribution - PC Transplant integration for OS migrations.

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jjesse
4 weeks 6 days ago

really excited for this

saw a demo at the Cleveland Super User group and really looking forward to testing it out.

Hope it works great

Jonathan Jesse
Practice Principle
ITS Partners

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spazzzen
4 weeks 6 days ago

x64 compatible?

I am going to try to get the beta so I can get some experience with it before we put it into production (after it is offically released).  Is 7.1 compatible with server 2008 x64?  Just curious what kind of VM I need to build for testing this.

Thanks.

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Rdutch12
4 weeks 2 days ago

I installed the beta and

I installed the beta and looked at it. There is still a lot of work to be done on this. No Windows 7 support is one of the many things. Well at least Windows 7 wasn't listed in the section where you add your OS License keys. For now I would say: Stay with DS 6.9 SP3.

Rob Hilberding
Sr. Consultant
ExpressAbility
www.expressability.com

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spazzzen
3 weeks 1 day ago

Server 2008

Ok, so I can understand it not being x64 compatible, but I can't install the beta on Server 2008?  Really?  Come on Symantec!

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