Installation guide

4. Specify the features of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows that you want to install.

Installation of the Deduplication and the Universal Restore add-ons

To install the agent with these add-ons, repeat the installation procedure twice. First install the agent and

then install the add-ons. Do the same if you are not sure whether the agent is installed. Successful remote

installation of the agent and the add-ons in one pass is not guaranteed.

5. Specify the name or IP address of the Acronis License Server, or type a trial license key. You can

use a single trial license key for remote installation to multiple machines.

6. Select machines on which the agent is to be installed. This can be done by:

o browsing the network. When browsing the network, you can select individual machines, as

well as entire workgroups or domains

o typing machine names or IP addresses (click Next then add machines to the list)

o importing the list of the machines from .txt or .csv files.

7. Provide the administrator's user name and password for each machine. If there is a universal

administrator account on the network, enter the account credentials for one machine and set the

option to apply it to all the machines that you select. Domain administrator credentials and

universal credentials for workgroups can be applied in this way.

If you do not specify credentials for all machines involved, or if the credentials are not valid for

some machines, you will have an option to provide credentials during installation (there is an

option Other user in the user name and password error prompt).

The summary window displays a list of machines where the agent will be installed.

Once the installation starts, the program displays the operation progress and the name of the

machine on which the agent is being installed.

Update

To update Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows on a remote machine, perform the

same procedure.

1.7. Installing components using Group Policy

You can centrally install, or deploy, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Windows onto machines

that are members of an Active Directory domain, by using Group Policy, a mechanism available in

Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and later Windows server operating systems.

With Group Policy, a domain administrator can specify a set of actions that will be performed on each

machine in the entire domain or its part every time the machine logs on to the domain.

Example

Let us suppose that a domain administrator wants to deploy Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for

Windows onto all accounting office machines, so that whenever a domain user logs on to Windows

on any of these machines, the domain controller ensures that the agent is installed and operational

on the machine.

Assume that the domain already has the Accounting Office organizational unit, which contains all

accounting office machines.