The following modules are included in the course and are based on typical use cases that are designed to meet business or operational objectives and are common to the administration of the Symantec Deployment Solution 8.1:
Endpoint Lifecycle Management Introduction:
- Symantec software overview
- Deployment Solution Overview
- Components used with Deployment Solution
Planning and Preparing for OS \ Hardware Migration:
- Understanding Sites and Site Servers
- Understanding & Installing Deployment Site Server Components
- Creating and managing Jobs and Tasks
- Scheduling Jobs and Tasks
- Monitoring Jobs and Tasks
- Searching for Jobs, Tasks, and computers
- Adding configuration files and keys
- Symantec Network Boot Service
- Preboot configurations
- Configuring Network Boot Service (PXE/BSDP)
- Driver database management
Preparing a Computer for Imaging:
- Including agents and plug-ins
- Installing Software
- Installing software updates and service packs
Building an Initial Reference Image:
- Imaging Tools and Types
- About Prepare for Image capture tasks
- Performing scripted OS installations to automate the build of the reference computer
- Assembling the Jobs
- Creating Images
- Understanding Sys prep and Deployment Solution tasks
Migration Planning
- PC Transplant overview
- Creating a PCT template file
- PC Transplant tasks
- Editing Personality Packages
- Building and editing A2i files
Execution and Maintenance
- Overview of the Image Lifecycle
- Delivering the Gold Master
- Restoring from a Backup
- Image Maintenance
- Initial Deployment imaging
- Imaging predefined computers
- Decommissioning Computers
Imaging Mac OS
- Profile Management
- Creating NetBoot Images
- Creating Net Install Images
- Creating the Reference Computer
- Capture the Gold Master
- Deploy the Gold Master