Applies to LANDesk Management Suite 9.5 and newer.
Description
In LANDesk Management Suite 9.5 provisioning action handlers have been added or updated to enable users to accomplish the same provisioning tasks in fewer steps. The addition of preferred server actions allows for a single template to be used for multiple sites, reducing the management requirements of existing templates. Preferred server actions leverage the credentials provided in the preferred server configuration.
With the increased use of preferred servers for credentials, it is recommended that you configure the core in the preferred server configuration. An IP range (i.e. 1 .1.1.1-1.1.1.2) can be configured for the core so that clients will not use the core as their preferred server but will be able to get credentials for the core.
New or Improved Actions
Capture/Deploy Image (improved)
Capture Profile (new)
Deploy Profile (new)
Download from Preferred Server (new)
Map/Unmap Drive to Preferred Server (new)
Capture Profile
Capture profile enables a single provisioning action to capture user profiles using the LANDesk SMA tool. Greatly reducing the number of provisioning actions required to capture profiles. Configuration of the SMA xml is required to define items that will be captured during the SMA process. Capture profile does not make use of preferred servers, the capture fill will be written to the specified path.
Capture Profile Action
Capture Profile Xml Selection
Capture Profile Xml Configuration
Deploy Profile
Deploy profile enables a single provisioning action to deploy user profiles using the LANDesk SMA tool. Greatly reducing the number of provisioning actions required to deploy profiles.
Deploy Profile Action
Download from Preferred Server
Provides configuration options for the download location in any combination of peer, preferred server and/or source. Provides control of bandwidth usage during the download.
Download from Preferred Server Action
Map/Unmap drive to preferred server
Maps drives based on the preferred server configuration. Drives can then be used to run additional tools or installations. This action does require an agent to be installed. WinPE includes the necessary agent components for this action.
Map Drive to Preferred Server Action
Capture/Deploy Image
Capture image will automatically map and save the image to the path provided. It does not map to the preferred server but will use preferred server credentials to authenticate to the path provided. The capture file should be replicated to preferred servers for deployment. During deployment if a preferred server is used, the image file must be on the preferred server or the template will fail. The action will not fail over to the core for the image file.
The Deploy image action automatically maps a drive using the preferred server configuration if the image type is ImageW or ImageX. Actions to map to the image file and/or imaging tool are not longer required. Templates imported from 9.0 will use and image type of other and will continue to use the mapped drives. If the template is changed from other to ImageW or ImageX, the map drive actions should be removed.
Capture Image
Deploy Image
