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Broadcom Symantec Ghost Solution Suite

Seminar / Training Symantec Ghost Solution Suite

  • Overview of Symantec Ghost
  • Installing Symantec Ghost
  • Managing computers with the console
  • Creating operations
  • Creating and scheduling operations
  • Growth backups and rollbacks
  • Moving users
  • Manage client inventory
  • Creating boot disks and images
  • Saving image files to CD/DVD
  • Modifying image files

Detailed seminar content

Unit 1 - Overview of Symantec Ghost

  • Symantec Ghost components
    • the Ghost console
    • the Ghost Cast Server
    • the Ghost Boot Assistant
    • the Ghost AutoInstall
    • the Ghost DOS drivers
    • the Ghost Windows program file
    • the Ghost Walker
    • the Ghost Explorer
    • GDisk
  • The Symantec Ghost partition
    • connect to the console
  • create an image file

Unit 2 - Installing Symantec Ghost

  • the system requirements
  • Symantec Ghost Console
  • Ghost.exe
  • Supported storage media for backup
  • the Symantec Ghost Console client
  • Standard tools
  • Supported file systems
  • Support for RAID disks
  • Installing the Console
  • Installing the Console Client
    • remote
    • manually
  • Install standalone configuration client
  • Installation of the Symantec Ghost standard tools
  • Registering Symantec Ghost
  • Updates for Symantec Ghost
  • Uninstall
  • Creating Console Service Accounts

Unit 3 - Managing computers with the console

  • Setting Console Properties
  • Set the view mode for resource folders
  • Create new folders
  • Console resources
    • move
    • rename
    • delete
    • view
  • Manage client computers
  • Manage computer groups
  • Set default properties for clients and data transfers
  • Set default clock interval for clients
  • Set default properties for data transfer
  • Setting properties for a subnet
  • Set properties for Symantec Ghost
  • Console Client Computer
  • Set the clock interval of the client computer
  • Manage default client configuration settings
  • Setting up the virtual partition
  • Set the size of the virtual partition
  • Set default DOS version
  • Edit files in the virtual partition
  • remove the Ghost boot partition from a computer
  • Configuration sets
    • create
    • view
    • change
    • delete

Unit 4 - Creating operations with Symantec Ghost

  • Create and run console operations
  • Distributing console resources locally
  • Configuring image creation operations
  • Create a model computer
  • Image definitions
    • Create image definitions
    • Managing image definitions
    • View image details
    • the image creation process
    • Setting properties for an image creation operation
  • Configuring operations
  • create an operation
  • Configuring duplication properties
    • set properties for configuration
    • Set properties for file transfer
    • Add commands
    • View operation details
  • Distributing AutoInstall packages
    • Saving AI packages
    • Creating AI package definitions
    • Manage AI package definitions
    • View AI Package
    • Configure process for AI package installation

Unit 5 - Creating and Scheduling Operations on Symantec Ghost

  • Running Tasks
  • Starting an operation from the Symantec Ghost console
  • Run recovery operation
  • Cancel an operation while it is running
  • Run an operation from a client computer
  • Run the operation from the command line
  • Scheduling operations
    • Create a schedule for an operation
    • Set properties for a scheduled operation
    • Specify a schedule
    • View and modify schedules

Unit 6 - Symantec Ghost Growth Backups and Rollbacks

  • Specify the location of backup images
  • Configure backup schedules
  • Set properties for backup schedules
  • View and modify backup schedules
  • Create a backup manually
  • View backups of a computer
  • Restore a computer

Unit 7 - Moving Users in Symantec Ghost

  • Specify data files and registry keys to be recorded
    • Configuring data templates
    • Creating data templates
    • Enabling relative paths
    • Variables for moving users
    • Specify data files to capture
    • Specifying registry entries to capture
    • Manage data templates
    • View and modify data templates
  • Configuring user profiles
    • Create user profiles
    • Manage user profiles
    • View and change user profiles
    • Recording user data
    • Moving users: configuring "Create
  • Manage user packages
    • Set location for user packages
    • View details of a user package
    • Restore user data
    • Configure the "Move user: Restore" operation
    • Perform the Move Users operation
    • User settings that can be moved
  • Accessibility settings
  • Desktop settings
  • Country settings
  • Keyboard settings
  • Mouse settings
  • Sound settings
  • Screensaver settings
  • Mapped network drive settings
  • Internet settings

Unit 8 - Managing the Symantec Ghost client inventory

  • System requirements
  • Manage inventory resources
  • Manage collected records
    • View Collected Data folder
    • Configure Collected Records
    • Create a new collected record
    • Populating the inventory database with data
    • Configure properties for collected records
    • Manage Collected Records
  • View inventory information
    • Create views
    • View and modify views
    • Manage views
  • Set a common inventory view for computer groups
  • Set default inventory views for new client computers
  • View inventory information for client computers
  • Create and manage filters
    • Create filters
    • Configure filter conditions
    • Group filter conditions
    • View and modify filters
    • Manage filters
  • Create and run reports
    • Create reports
    • View and modify reports
    • Manage reports
    • Run reports
  • Configure dynamic computer groups
    • Create dynamic groups of computers
    • View or modify dynamic computer groups
    • Manage dynamic groups

Unit 9 - Creating boot disks and images with Symantec Ghost

  • What is a Ghost boot disk or image?
  • In which cases does MS-DOS need to be added to a boot diskette?
  • be added?
  • Opening the Ghost Boot Wizard
  • Creating boot disks and boot images
    • Standard boot disks
    • Boot disks with network support
    • Boot disks with network drive mapping support
    • Boot disks with CD and DVD support
  • Create boot image containing console boot partition
  • Boot packages with support for Microsoft's WDS service
  • Boot client computers in Ghost.exe over the network
  • Start the client computer over the network to connect to Symantec Ghost Console
  • Select a template
  • Multicard templates and boot disks
  • Adding network drivers to the Ghost Boot Wizard
  • Adding package drivers to the Ghost Boot Wizard
  • Adding NDIS2 drivers to the Ghost Boot Wizard
  • Customize template
  • Adding command line parameters to a boot disk
  • Selecting a DOS version
  • Install MS-DOS client files
  • Creating a DOS boot disk manually
  • Setting up package drivers

Unit 10 - Saving image files to CD/DVD with Symantec Ghost

  • Image Files and CD/DVD Writer
  • Saving an image file directly to CD/DVD drive
  • Saving an image file to a supported
  • CD/DVD drive
  • Creating Ghost boot disks
  • Booting your computer
  • Create and save image file
  • Saving an image file to an unsupported
  • CD/DVD drive
  • Splitting an image file when creating a backup

Unit 11 - Symantec Ghost support for image files and disks

  • Image files and compression
  • Network performance
  • Image files and CRC32
  • Image files and splitting to multiple disks
  • Standard image files
  • Image file size limitations
  • Image files with predefined size
  • Split image files
  • Split images to multiple disks and limit segment size
  • Restore disk/partition from a split image file
  • Image files and tape drives
  • Dynamic disks in Windows
  • Support for Disk Drive Overlays (DDO)
  • Hibernation and swap files
  • Backing up or migrating a server
  • Security ID and configuration notes

Unit 12 - Modifying image files with Ghost Explorer

  • Viewing image files
  • Starting a file
  • Extract a file or directory from a
  • image file
  • Editing image files
  • Add, move and delete files
  • View the contents of an image file
  • Set segment sizes
  • Splitting an image file
  • Compiling a file
  • Determining the version number of an image file
  • Run Ghost Explorer from the command line
  • Ghost Explorer and long filenames

Requirements

Knowledge of Windows

This seminar has the level "Administration / Basic and Advanced".

If you are not sure whether this course is the right level for you, you can check this with the trainer in advance.

We conduct this seminar online for you. You can book the training as a public seminar or as a company seminar. The practical exercises are carried out in our Remotelab and make up 40-50 percent of the seminar.

Your contacts

We offer seminars with a high practical relevance. The contents and exercises are geared to your daily tasks in the company and completely dispense with advertising references to other products of the software manufacturer.

All our training courses are manufacturer-independent. This enables us to offer critical considerations of the products themselves and comparisons with competitors of the manufacturer in the seminar. The course contents are our own and derived from the practical experience of our trainers in projects.

Of course, the contents of company seminars can be individually adapted to your needs. Please do not hesitate to contact us.
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