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 Set up deployment for one or more machines.
 Organize machines into groups.
1.4.2 List of deployment tasks
Centralized deployment is performed by a deployment task. Acronis Snap Deploy 5 provides a list of
deployment tasks in the Deployment tasks (p. 132) view.
In this view, you can:
 View and edit the list of tasks, including scheduled tasks and tasks that perform deployment
when a specified number of machines are ready.
 Edit tasks; for example, to change the list of machines to perform deployment to.
 Start any task manually; for example, to perform deployment outside the normal schedule.
 Examine the current state of the task and the result of the last run of the task.
1.4.3 Per-deployment licensing
In addition to per-machine licensing, Acronis Snap Deploy 5 supports per-deployment licensing.
A deployment license enables you a single successful deployment to a particular machine. A machine
license enables you an unlimited number of deployments to a particular machine.
For more details, see “Licensing policy” (p. 16).
Scenario
You provision machines to end users by deploying the operating system with the necessary software
to a machine and then shipping the machine to the end user. Because you are planning to perform
deployment to each machine only once, you want a cheaper license for the machine.
You buy a number of deployment licenses based on the number of machines that you want to
provision. A deployment license becomes used only if the deployment to the corresponding machine
has been successful.
1.4.4 Support for the VHD format
In addition to using its own format for an image, Acronis Snap Deploy 5 can perform deployment
from a Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) file. Such file stores contents of one or more disks. It can be created in
Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7.
Scenario
You saved the disks of one of your machines to a VHD file by using the Windows Backup program.
Now you want to deploy that machine to other machines.
When setting up the deployment, you specify the VHD file as you would specify an image file created
by Acronis Snap Deploy 5. When performing the deployment, the software can change the settings
for the machines being deployed.
1.4.5 Graphical user interface in WinPE
A bootable media based on Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE) now provides a graphical
user interface (GUI) similar to that in an Acronis bootable media.