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by chris muncy

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We are looking at purchasing either PowerQuest's PowerDeploy Suite or Symantec's Enterprise ghost v7.5

THe main points I am interested in is the moving of users form one platform or pc to another (such as moving cookies, histories, favorites, emails settings and desktops preferences and such)and standardising images for each of out hardware platforms. 95% of our users are remote and are not on our corporate lan but are part of the domain.

I would like to hear from users that have used either product and can point pros and cons out of each package. THey are very similar price wise and we have been testing Symantec with good success.

Thanks in advance.

Chris

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by mm212

I've been using Ghost for years and have had no issues with it at all. Currently we have a Ghost image for each OS on each hardware configuration so we have a load of images, but it works great. The only thing I'd like is to be able to load all of the drivers for all of the hardware configurations onto one image so we don't need quite so many images. Plug&Play SHOULD take care of it but it's not quite up to the task.

One hint I found well after using the program is the split function. If yourun it like:
ghost -split=650 -autoname
then use as you normally do, you can split a large image into smaller parts approximately 650MB in size to fit onto a CD. When loading an image from CD and it reaches the end, it asks for the next volume in the set. Works great on those Win2K workstations with O2K on them.

I can't advise you on PowerDeploy since I haven't used it, but can recommend Ghost whole-heartedly.

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