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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
6
Click Always obtain files from a source directory.
Do not select This package does not contain any files.
7
Click Browse to locate the folder that contains the pcAnywhere package that
you created with Symantec Packager (or a supplied, preconfigured package).
The Create Package from Definition Wizard uses this folder to point to the
pcAnywhere package.
8
After you complete the Create Package from Definition Wizard, a pcAnywhere
package appears in the SMS Administrator console.
Assigning distribution points
After an SMS package is created, a distribution point must be specified for the
package.
To assign distribution points
1
Right-click Distribution Points, and then click New > Distribution point.
2
Select the Distribution points to which you want to distribute the package.
3
Click Finish to complete the Distribution Point Wizard.
Advertising the package
To send the pcAnywhere installation to the clients, an advertisement of one or
more of the packaged installations must be created.
Note: Advertisements created using the EXE-based installer require user
intervention. Users are prompted to choose a temporary directory on the local
client computer to extract the installation files. After the files are extracted, users
are prompted to click Yes to begin Setup to install pcAnywhere. Users should
delete the temporary setup files when installation is complete.
To advertise the package
1
Right-click Advertisements, and then click New > Advertisement.
2
Select the package that you want to advertise.
3
Give the advertisement a descriptive name.
4
In the drop-down menu, select Windows 2000 to distribute to Windows 2000
clients that support MSI-based installations.
55Deploying Symantec pcAnywhere custom installations
Deploying pcAnywhere using SMS 2.0