Altiris Deployment Solution

This OS deployment solution from Symantec helps reduce the cost of deploying and managing servers, desktops, and notebooks from a centralized location in your environment. The solution offers OS deployment, configuration, PC "personality" migration, and software deployment across hardware platforms and OS types, including Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, and Solaris.




  • Complete integration with the Symantec Management Platform to give better scalability and accurate targeting for imaging and deployment jobs.
  • Better scalability with Deployment Server synchronization. With hierarchy and replication, Deployment Solution jobs, scripts, tasks, security settings, images, software packages, and everything else needed for deployment are synchronized between all remote locations.
  • Centralized management of local and remote PXE servers for consistent pre-boot environment management
  • Leverages the existing security model built into the Symantec Management Platform for complete management of security roles. This, includes more granular security options for individual roles , and global scoping of IT deployment roles
  • Instant job status and reporting to giving you details on machines with pending jobs, how long have they been waiting, and which jobs succeeded or failed.
  • Smarter job creation with better branch logic giving you more scalable and reusable jobs.
  • Integrated into filters and computer groups defined by the Symantec Management Platform for better and more dynamic deployment targeting.
  • Options to use VMDK files in imaging jobs along with physical to virtual and virtual to physical conversions of deployment images for greater flexibility
  • Integrated with many Symantec products already built on the Symantec Management Platform, including Altiris products, security, backup and recovery, virtualization, data loss prevention, vulnerability assessment, and more.