Deployment and Imaging

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The goal of this group is to help system administrators fully utilize deployment and imaging capabilities found in Deployment Solution and Symantec Ghost.

A team of Symantec deployment and imaging experts will monitor content posted to this group and highlight the most useful information so it's easy to find. This team will also post content such as how to videos and sample tasks to make getting the most out of Deployment Solution and Symantec Ghost easier than ever. Members of this group will have access to configuration guidelines and best practices, valuable how to videos, and sample jobs and tasks that can be quickly leveraged to help you get the most out of Symantec's deployment and imaging technologies.

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discussion comment 16 Dec 2010

EdT commented on: Capture and Restore User Settings Question

They have just released 2298 so it might be worth requesting this from tech support in case it addresses your issue. There are some technotes associated with the release which have further information.

discussion comment 03 Nov 2010

Nitin commented on: After 2269 patch sysprep option for Win 7 not there

Hi, Build 2269 patch should apply over GSS 2.5.1 build 2266. I suspect you must have applied the patch on older version of GSS version which is not correct. Please go through the readme for instructions to apply 2269 patch. ...

discussion comment 05 Nov 2010

rwgt0su commented on: Virtual Box with Ghost Solution Suite

If you mean using virtual box to run a Ghost Solution Suite, then yes I have. I have been using it to create base images and then sysprep the image to go accross multiple platforms. I also use VirtualBox to create and test any ...

video comment 17 Sep 2012

JoeShmo commented on: Creating and Deploying an Image Using Deployment Solution Video – Step 1

the 2nd step link is restricted! - ah - jumped the gun. its OK now.

article comment 05 Sep 2012

JMP51483 commented on: Command line utilities for Driver management in Deployment Solution 7.1

Hey Pratha, You are correct... The drivers folder generally only replicates once every 24 hours by default. You can force this replciation by going to settings > deployment and migration > drivers package. At the bottom of the properties page ...

article comment 23 Aug 2012

ladd.russell commented on: Tokens in Deployment Solution 7.x

Vaibhav, Is there any more detail regarding the last list of tokens, i.e. @timezone, and how to get them to work in a token replacement vbscript in 7.1? Thanks, Ladd Russell

New download 07 Aug 2012

JimChud posted: Map Drive Depending on IP ADDRESS for Site Based Software Repositories

To migrate to DS 7.1 I've had to create a VBScript task for creating a mapped drive to the previous site based software repositories that we used in DS 6.9 depending on IP address. This has helped me migrate quickly and allowed me to continue using our current structure while testing with

New discussion 01 Aug 2012

Sally5432 posted: Creating an image with latest PCAnywhere agent

I need a solution This doc says to delete some registry files when building your base image... Under CurrentVersion, I do have a registry key that is a random number, and deleted that, created image, deployed but then on de

New article 18 Jul 2012

yogeshsadhu posted: How to Recover from NTLDR after Imaging

After deploying an image either using Ghost Solution suite or Deployment Solution ,you may see an issue \ntldr missing or corrupted ; This means that your hard drive configuration has changed somehow, or at least the system thinks the config has changed. The NTLDR is used by Windows to boot, I hav

discussion comment 06 Jul 2012

sfaucher commented on: DS 7.1 Job tasks executing out of order

These jobs definitely qualify as very large, in the range of 100+ individual tasks/conditions with multiple sub-jobs. I guess I will go through and remove that option from every software/package delivery task we have. Is there a way to change ...