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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The PE builder comes with Acronis Snap Deploy Management Console
The PE Builder can add the Acronis Snap Deploy command line utility to a Bart PE, Win PE 1.0 or Win
PE 2.0 image. To be able to add the command line utility to a Win PE 2.0 image (a .WIM file or a
folder with PE 2.0 unpacked files) you must have Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK) installed.
For this purpose, install Acronis Snap Deploy PE Builder on a computer where AIK is installed. If you
do not have such machine, do as follows:
- Download Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK) from
http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/details.aspx?familyid=C7D4BC6D-15F3-4284-9123-
679830D629F2&displaylang=en
- Burn the AIK to DVD or copy to a flash drive
- Install the Microsoft .NET Framework v.2.0 from this kit (NETFXx86 or NETFXx64, depending
on your hardware)
- Install Microsoft Core XML (MSXML) 5.0 or 6.0 Parser from this kit
- Install Windows AIK from this kit
- Install Acronis Snap Deploy PE builder.
15.1.2 Adding ASD command line utility to PE 1.0
1. Do one of the following:
Unpack all files of your Win PE 1.0 ISO to a separate folder on the hard disk
or
Install Bart PE builder
Use Bart PE builder and your Windows distribution to create a folder with Bart PE files
To be able to boot from a PXE server, PE 1.0 must contain PXE loader. Check whether your
Windows distribution has this loader. It appears as a packed file named STARTROM.N1_.
2. Select Acronis -> Acronis Snap Deploy -> Acronis Snap Deploy PE Builder from the start
menu.
3. Do one of the following, depending on your choice in step 1:
Specify path to the folder with PE 1.0 unpacked files
or