1. Best Practices for Standardized Desktop Images with Hardware Independent Imaging

2. © Altiris Inc. Best Practices for Standardized Desktop Images I. Prepare to Create and Distribute Hardware Independent Images II. Create your Standard Desktop Image III. Distribute your Standard Desktop Image

3. © Altiris Inc. Step I: Prepare to Create and Distribute Hardware Independent Images 1. Install the latest version of Deployment Server 6.8 2. Prepare Deployment Server to Create and Distribute Hardware Independent Images a. Best Practices Document b. HII Tools c. HIIS 3. Optionally, prepare to be able to change your Administrator password without re-creating your image 4. Optionally, modify your tokenized Sysprep.inf 5. Collect the drivers

4. © Altiris Inc. Step I, Collect the Drivers (Workflow) \Temp\%ID% DriverCollect (client) DriverCollect (server) ManualDriverCollect.bat Automated process Manual process

5. © Altiris Inc. Step II: Create your Standard Desktop Image 1. Install your operating system 2. Install your applications 3. Finalize the source computer 4. Capture the Image using the Create Hardware Independent Image sample job 5. Create Distribute Software jobs/tasks for the applications that are not installed as a part of the Standard Desktop Image

6. © Altiris Inc. Step III: Distribute your Standard Desktop Image 1. Distribute the Image using the Distribute Hardware Independent Image sample job 2. Distribute additional applications 3. Distribute PCT Package

7. © Altiris Inc. Exercise 1. Create your Standard Desktop Image 1. Turn on Client1. 2. On your Server, in the Deployment Console, assign the Create Hardware Independent Image sample job to Client1. 2. Distribute your Standard Desktop Image 1. Turn on Client2. 2. On your Server, in the Deployment Console, assign the Distribute Hardware Independent Image sample job to Client2.