12.1
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
A collection of installation sources and packages that
is used to inventory and install software on SMS client
computers
SMS packages can be any type of software program
that supports installation using SMS.
SMS Package
An SMS-specific information file used by SMS to
create and deploy SMS packages
The default package definition file (PDF) that is
supplied with pcAnywhere is named pcAnywhere.pdf
Package Definition File
Minimum requirements for SMS deployment
The following resources are required to deploy pcAnywhere using SMS:
■ Windows NT 4.0 Server with Service Pack 5 or later
■ SQL Server 6.5 or higher
■ SMS 2.0 with Service Pack 1 or Service Pack 2 (recommended)
■ Symantec Packager 1.0 or later with customized packages created for
deployment
All deployment clients must be members of the same domain as the SMS
distribution server, or have a trust relationship set up between the domains with
appropriate permissions that allow the SMS server administrative rights on all
clients.
SMS 2.0 must be installed on Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 5 or higher. It is
recommended that you obtain the SMS Service Pack 2 or higher from Microsoft.
For more information about SMS requirements and updates, visit the Microsoft
Web site at the following URL:
//www.microsoft.com/sms
Deploying with SMS
An SMS deployment requires the following steps:
■ Preparing the Package Definition File
■ Creating an SMS deployment package
■ Assigning distribution points
■ Advertising the package
53Deploying Symantec pcAnywhere custom installations
Deploying pcAnywhere using SMS 2.0