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Table Of Contents
- Symantec pcAnywhere™ Administrator's Guide
- Technical Support
- Contents
- 1. Planning a migration and upgrade strategy
- 2. Creating custom installation packages
- 3. Deploying Symantec pcAnywhere custom installations
- 4. Performing centralized management
- About centralized management
- Managing pcAnywhere hosts remotely
- Installing the pcAnywhere Host Administrator tool
- Adding the Host Administrator snap-in to MMC
- Creating a configuration group
- Adding computers to a configuration group
- Configuring administrator host and remote connection items
- Configuring a host item in pcAnywhere Host Administrator
- Distributing pcAnywhere configuration files
- Managing hosts in a configuration group
- Integrating with Microsoft Systems Management Server
- About the Microsoft Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM)
- About centralized logging
- 5. Integrating pcAnywhere with directory services
- 6. Managing security in Symantec pcAnywhere
- Index
During the installation, you are prompted to preserve existing configuration
settings. This data includes settings for host, remote, and caller items, as well as
option sets.
Migration of remote-only packages and integrity-checked packages is not
supported.
Migrating from pcAnywhere 11.x in Windows 2000/2003 Server/XP
Symantec pcAnywhere supports full migration of the full product version and
host-only version of pcAnywhere 11.x to version 12.1 in Windows 2000/2003
Server/XP.
During the installation, you are prompted to preserve existing configuration
settings. This data includes settings for host, remote, and caller items, as well as
option sets.
Migration of remote-only packages and integrity-checked packages is not
supported.
Migrating from pcAnywhere 10.5.x in Windows 2000/2003 Server/XP
Symantec pcAnywhere supports full migration of the full product version and
host-only version of pcAnywhere 10.5.x to 12.1 in Windows 2000/2003 Server/XP.
During the installation, you are prompted to preserve existing configuration
settings. This data includes settings for host, remote, and caller items, as well as
option sets.
AutoTransfer files (.atf) that were created in earlier versions of pcAnywhere are
preserved. However, to use the .atf files in this version of pcAnywhere, you must
convert the .atf files to command queue files.
Migration of remote-only packages and integrity-checked packages is not
supported.
Using Symantec Packager to streamline migrations
and upgrades
Symantec Packager is an administrator tool that lets you create, modify, and build
custom installation packages that you distribute to target systems. Symantec
Packager is available as an installation option on the pcAnywhere installation
CD.
Symantec Packager helps you streamline the process of migrating or upgrading
from earlier versions of pcAnywhere in the following ways:
13Planning a migration and upgrade strategy
Using Symantec Packager to streamline migrations and upgrades