1. Operating System Imaging and Deployment Cody Burns Anthony Luu Joel Groeneveld

2.  What is OS Deployment?  Benefit of OS Deployment  OS Deployment Tools  LANDesk® Management Suite  LANDesk® Management Suite Pros/Cons  How did we use it?  Project Costs  Real World Costs  Issues  Next Step  Acknowledgments

3. WHAT IS IT?  The creation/deployment of an operating system prepared for multiple installations in a corporate setting  A hard drive image HOW IS IT USED?  Deploy to any OEM hardware  Detects the model number  Pulls drivers based on the model number

4.  Time Saved by the IT department  Versatility  Customizable  Many tools are available

5.  Norton Ghost ™  Windows® RIS  Altiris ™  Altrinsic Solutions ™  LANDesk® Management Suite

6. WHAT IS IT?  Allow Administrators to:  Manage company assets  Manage inventory  Monitor Software  Manage the deployment of patches  Deploy OS images over a network  OS provisioning WHY DID WE USE IT?  Free 45 day trial  Employed a lot of what SAIT has taught us  Enabled us to “think outside the box” in terms of troubleshooting

7. BENEFITS  Saves time  Versatile  Centralized Management  Support CHALLENGES  Cost  Setup Complexity  Product documentation  Support

8. SERVER  Dual Xeon Quad-core CPU’s with Hyper Threading  16 Logical cores  12 GB DDR3 RAM  4 drive RAID array in RAID 1+0 giving 1 TB of usable space VIRTUAL MACHINES  Windows Server 2008 ™  LANDesk® Core  2x Windows Server 2003 ™ R2  SQL server  Active Directory  Windows XP ™ SP3  PXE boot server

9.  Hardware= $3365.07 for server hardware  Software  LANDesk® Management Suite V9 = $100/node (min. 10 nodes)  Windows Server 2003 ™ ▪ $999 (5CALs)  Windows Server 2008 ™ ▪ $1,029 (5 CALs)  Windows XP™ VLK (no longer available)  Windows 7™ VLK (price varies)

10.  Hardware delivery  RAID  Windows Vista™ Image  Network design issue

13.  Very Useful  Saves Administrators a lot of time  Training/Experience is recommended

14.  Jason Fisher, Instructor  Colin Chamberlain, Instructor  Tim Williams, Instructor  Jim Catley, Academic Chair  Dale Johnson, service desk technical lead of Compton Petroleum Corp.  Jamie Scales, Student  Our friends and family

15.  LANDesk®  Microsoft®  Intel®

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