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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
For more information about installing pcAnywhere, see the Symantec
pcAnywhere User's Guide.
■ Symantec Packager deployment tool
This tool lets you deploy packages to one or more computers on your network.
The Symantec Packager deployment tool supports deployment to Microsoft
32-bit computers only (for example, Windows 2000/2003 Server/XP/Vista).
For more information, see the Symantec Packager Implementation Guide on
the pcAnywhere CD.
■ Symantec Web Deploy tool
This tool lets you deploy package or product installations to one or more
computers using a Web server.
See “Deploying installation packages using Web-based deployment” on page 43.
■ Third-party tools
Package and product installations created with Symantec Packager can be
distributed using a third-party deployment product, such as Microsoft Systems
Management Server (SMS).
See “Deploying pcAnywhere using SMS 2.0” on page 52.
■ Logon scripts
Package and product installations created with Symantec Packager can be
distributed to Windows 2000/2003 Server/XP/Vista and Novell NetWare target
computers using a logon script.
See “Using Windows 2000/2003 Server/XP/Vista logon scripts” on page 56.
See “Using NetWare logon scripts” on page 58.
About package installation file locations
Preconfigured package and product installation files are stored in the Packages
directory on the Symantec pcAnywhere CD. Packages and product installation
files that you create with Symantec Packager are listed on the Deploy Packages
tab in Symantec Packager.
To view .msi files, you must edit the Symantec Packager preferences to list
supported product .msi files. Symantec Packager supports MSI deployment only
for pcAnywhere .msi files.
For more information, see the online Help in Symantec Packager or the Symantec
Packager Implementation Guide on the pcAnywhere installation CD.
Deploying Symantec pcAnywhere custom installations
About package installation file locations
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