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by chris muncy

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We are considering either using Powerquest's Powerdeploy suite or Symantec's Ghost enterprise v7.5 for workstation imaging and user migration. Anyone have anything to say about either? I am leaning toward Symantec because that is what I am most familiar with. Powerdeploy suite cost is very similar but unfortunateyy there is no trial to download and play with.

So what would you use?? We have around 100 users, 80 of which are remote users. only 20 win98 users left. All under one domain.

Thanks

Chris

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by robin

We support about 3,ooo pc's here at the college and we use Ghost. It has often been a lifesaver, particularly when we have down pc's that must be up right now for labs, etc. And, best of all, it is easy to use.

by skuterjan

If You are using IBM PCs you will have one of the best solutions on the market available for you - for free! It is called System Installation Toolkit, and can be downloaded from IBMs website. This collection of tools includes the RDM - Remote Deployment Manager. It includes tools from Powerquest, and gives You the possibility to make OS installations, software distribution and image installations without even touching the workstations. It uses Wake On LAN technology. If You don't use IBM PCs You can still use the tools, but then You have to pay a licence fee. Check out this pages:
http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/eserver/xseries/systems_management/rdm.html

Good Luck!

by Member 25088450

We have been using Ghost for about 5 years and I have found it a great asset. 15 minutes per computer to install on a 20gig hard drive. My new images (Win2k and XP)are about 3gig so you need space to save the images.

I setup 3-5 computers useboot disk to connect to server and image all at the same time.

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