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WinINSTALL Desktop Availability Suite

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Finding the right combination of features and value in desktop management solutions can present challenges for IT. Point solutions offer strong functionality, but no integration. Meanwhile, suites designed for large enterprise environments come with a high price tag and extraneous functionality, as well as the hidden costs of implementation and fully trained IT support staff.

Scalables WinINSTALL combines the standard desktop management functions administrators use the most-asset management, software deployment, and patch management-while automating three of the most labor-intensive IT management tasks: PC Refresh, OS Migration, and PC Recovery.

The WinINSTALL share-based architecture enables simple implementation of a stable software deployment framework. WinINSTALL can support small organizations with only a few machines as well as enterprise environments with tens of thousands of machines. With WinINSTALL, you do not have to sacrifice ease of use for scalability. Enterprise-wide functionality can be achieved in days and weeks rather than months and years.



Key features of WinINSTALL Desktop Availability Suite include:

Client Reset Templates
WinINSTALL's unique client reset technology allows IT administrators to build workflow templates around common desktop management tasks.

Alternative to Imaging
Whether restoring a PC, deploying new hardware, or migrating operating systems, WinINSTALL eliminates the headaches triggered by creating, updating, and tracking images-without sacrificing speed.

Zero-Touch Deployment
WinINSTALL automates the deployment of operating systems and applications, as well as the configuration and personality restoration of PCs. With its eight deployment options, WinINSTALL offers more flexibility than any other product available today and is the most widely used MSI packager in the world.

Asset Management
WinINSTALL's inventory and license-tracking capabilities help you plan your IT spending and migration while keeping unauthorized applications (like spyware) off your desktops. DOS-Free PXE Using PXE technology, WinINSTALL can remotely boot a PC on the network, even when it does not possess an operating system or DOS boot resources. WinINSTALL can also completely automate PC restoration, PC refresh, and OS migration.

Personality Migration
WinINSTALL automatically backs up and restores all the settings, preferences, and options that are typically configured by users or IT-from configurations for Outlook folders, PST files, and rules to dial-up networking, mapped drives, short cuts, bookmarks, and printer settings.

Configuration Management
WinINSTALL provides an extended array of settings to improve the management of Windows desktops in three areas: security, application rights, and desktop configuration.

WinINSTALL Solution Suites
WinINSTALL Desktop Availability Suite takes the everyday PC management tasks found in the Desktop Management Suite and adds important functionality such as bare-metal OS installation, DOS-free PXE support, and PC personality backup and restore. Use this chart to help determine which solution is right for your organization.