To capture a supported operating system from one server
and deploy it to another, use the sample job provided by the ServerGuide Scripting Toolkit, Windows Edition.
About this task
The
ServerGuide Scripting Toolkit, Windows Edition provides
sample jobs to capture and deploy a supported
Windows operating system. To run
the capture
Windows image
sample job, the
Altiris Agent must
first be installed on the donor system. The scripted operating system
installation jobs provided by the
Toolkit install the
Altiris Agent automatically. If
you are cloning an operating system that was not installed through
the
Toolkit, you must
install the
Altiris Agent manually.
Procedure
- Start the Altiris Deployment Solution console,
and navigate to the Operating System Imaging folder in the following
location: .
- Open the Capture Windows Image job.
- Select the Create Disk Image task,
and click Modify.
- Change the path and file name for the captured image, and
click Finish to save your changes.
- Open the Deploy Windows Image job.
- Select the Distribute Disk Image task,
and click Modify.
- Change the path and file name to match the one that you
entered for the captured image, and click Finish to
save your changes.
- Run the Capture Windows Image job
against the donor server.
- When the job completes, run the Deploy Windows
Image job against the target server.