Operation Manual
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- 1. Introducing Acronis® Snap Deploy®
- 1.1 Overview
- 1.2 What you can do with Acronis Snap Deploy 3
- 1.2.1 Take an image of the master system (Acronis Snap Deploy 2.0 functionality)
- 1.2.2 Manual deployment (Acronis Snap Deploy 2.0 functionality)
- 1.2.3 Scheduled deployment (new in v 3)
- 1.2.4 Event-driven deployment (new in v 3)
- 1.2.5 Command line and scripting under Win PE (new in v 3)
- 1.2.6 Standalone deployment (new in v 3)
- 1.2.7 Custom Deployment (User-initiated deployment) (new in v 3)
- 1.2.8 Deployment of a disk partition or MBR (new in v 3)
- 1.2.9 Selective deployment (MAC filtering) (new in v 3)
- 1.2.10 Password protection (new in v 3)
- 1.2.11 Manage a remote computer (Acronis Snap Deploy 2.0 functionality)
- 1.3 What else is new in v 3?
- 1.4 Supported operating systems
- 1.5 License policy
- 1.6 Upgrade to v 3
- 1.7 Technical support
- 2. Understanding Acronis Snap Deploy
- 3. Installation
- 3.1 System requirements
- 3.2 Used ports and IP addresses
- 3.3 General rules of installation
- 3.4 Installation of Acronis Snap Deploy Management Console
- 3.5 Installation of Acronis License Server
- 3.6 Installation of Acronis OS Deploy Server
- 3.7 Installation and setup of Acronis PXE Server
- 3.8 Installation of Acronis WOL Proxy
- 3.9 Installation of Acronis Snap Deploy Management Agent
- 3.10 Installation of Acronis Universal Deploy
- 3.11 Extracting the Acronis Snap Deploy components
- 3.12 Using Acronis License Server
- 4. Using Acronis Snap Deploy Management Console
- 5. Creating Acronis bootable media
- 6. Configuring PXE Server
- 7. Taking an image
- 8. Checking the master image
- 9. Deployment templates
- 9.1 Why save templates?
- 9.2 Creating templates
- 9.2.1 Master image selection
- 9.2.2 Disk/partition selection
- 9.2.3 Target disk and partition selection
- 9.2.4 User accounts
- 9.2.5 Computer names and domain/workgroup
- 9.2.6 Network settings
- 9.2.7 Security identifiers
- 9.2.8 Transferring files
- 9.2.9 Executing applications
- 9.2.10 Using Acronis Universal Deploy
- 9.2.11 Deployment options
- 9.2.12 Comments and summary
- 10. Standalone deployment
- 11. Manual deployment
- 12. Event-driven deployment
- 13. Scheduled deployment
- 14. Custom deployment mode
- 15. Command line and scripting under Win PE and Bart PE
- 16. Managing a remote computer
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15. Command line and scripting under
Win PE and Bart PE
Windows Preinstallation Environment (Win PE) is a minimal Windows system based on the Windows
XP Professional, the Windows Server 2003 or the Windows Vista kernels. Win PE is commonly used by
OEMs and corporations for deployment, test, diagnostic and system repair purposes.
Acronis Snap Deploy provides a command line utility that can be added to a Windows Preinstallation
Environment (Win PE) image. The Acronis Universal Deploy add-on, if installed, will also be included in
the PE. The administrator can then upload the PE to a PXE server or transfer the PE image onto
removable media.
Having booted a machine in Preinstallation Environment, the administrator can perform imaging or
deployment in the command line mode or execute scripts. Section
15.4 Sample scenarios
provides
examples of what you can do in PE.
Limitation:
Acronis Snap Deploy command line utility can generate a new SID but cannot adjust other
settings on the fly. To change the computer name, domain or workgroup membership and
other settings, apply the Microsoft System Preparation Tool (Sysprep) to the master system
and specify the new settings in the Sysprep.inf answer file.
15.1 Adding ASD command line utility to PE
15.1.1 Acronis Snap Deploy PE Builder
Acronis Snap Deploy PE Builder is a dedicated component for adding Acronis Snap Deploy command
line utility to PE image.
Acronis Snap Deploy PE Builder is installed with the Acronis Snap Deploy Management Console
Typical or Complete installation. You can install the PE Builder alone using the Custom way of
installation.