ManageEngine OS Deployer Review

Automated Disk Imaging

ManageEngine OS Deployer permits your IT admins to perform automated disk imaging to expedite and enhance the OS deployment process. It enables them to quickly produce a replica or copy of all the important data stored in a master computer’s storage device or disk. This data backup is called disk image; and it contains useful pieces of contents and information about the device, like the operating system, software, and applications running on it, OS and data partitions, and other disk details. 

With this feature, IT admins can take images of various versions of operating systems and capture the disk contents and data of the devices or computers where those OSs are implemented. They can store these OS images along with all the relevant data in a single digital repository and deploy them to multiple computers, devices, and servers across the organization’s network. 

ManageEngine OS Deployer allows IT admins to conduct OS imaging using different techniques. For instance, they can apply online disk imaging by which they’ll be able to capture an OS image of a computer while it’s currently running and functioning on the network. This can be executed without rebooting the system and disrupting the tasks and activities being performed by the device user. 

Automated disk imaging accelerates the process of deploying operating systems across your organization, whether you’re onboarding new employees and setting up computers for them, migrating to new models of devices and systems, shifting to new manufacturers, or conducting hard disk changes and upgrades. You can also take advantage of it to respond to malware attacks, mitigate the effects of hardware failures, or prepare for possible security threats. 

Flexible OS Deployments 

Another feature offered by ManageEngine OS Deployer is it lets you implement OS deployments with greater flexibility. This is due to the fact that companies and organizations have their own deployment requirements depending on the needs of their branch offices, departments, and employees. The software solution gives IT admins the ability to build various deployment templates so they can deploy standardized and appropriate operating systems and applications and combinations of those IT resources across the organization. 

Through template-based OS deployment, your IT admins can easily customize the OS and disk images they captured based on the needs of specific branches, remote offices, departments, and user roles in your organization. They can choose the right  OS images that should be deployed to each office, department, or employee. ManageEngine OS Deployer, moreover, permits them to categorize the OS and data partitions contained in the master computer’ s disk image and select those partitions required for each remote office or end-user.

The OS imaging and deployment tool also has an OS deployment feature that enables them to change settings for disk size. Thus, they can adjust the data partitions in the disk and deploy OS images with the right storage space or disk size configurations to offices and employees. 

Post-deployment tasks can be configured within the deployment templates as well. This automates the usual activities performed by IT admins after deploying an operating system, like labeling the computer where the OS was deployed on, adding the device to a domain, setting up the user account, and installing the necessary applications. 

Multiple Deployment Techniques 

ManageEngine OS Deployer provides your IT admins with the opportunity to use different advanced and automated techniques for deploying operating systems across the organization’s network. These techniques are designed not only to make your OS deployments more flexible but also set up to ensure that your IT admins can perform their jobs much easier and faster.

For example, the software solution supports a passcode-based OS deployment method. With this method, your IT admins no longer need to do the traditional technique of deploying OS which uses complex Mac addresses. Instead, they can create a unique authentication passcode which is linked with all the deployment configurations they set up. The deployment of the OS starts immediately once they enter the passcode into the target device. 

Deploying operating systems to multiple computers simultaneously is made possible as well. Using a multicast deployment method, IT admins can capture the OS and disk image of a particular computer and deploy it to all computers, devices, and servers on your network at once. 

Centralized & Cost-Effective Deployment

ManageEngine OS Deployer has a feature that permits  IT admins to easily and quickly deploy operating systems and applications to remote offices around the world. They can do this from a central console in just a few simple steps, eliminating the need to perform complicated, time-consuming, and costly IT tasks. 

The software solution lets them immediately set up remote offices, assign captured and customized OS images of local office computers to remote office computers, and link existing deployment settings and activities with the remote offices. They can complete these procedures right away without creating new OS images and deployment configurations, using a large amount of bandwidth, and blowing up your IT budget.