Single image ghosting with UIU.Desktop computer set-up and configuration times across the enterprise can it is claimed be slashed from hours to seconds with Universal Imaging Utility (UIU UIU Upper Iowa University (Fayette, IA, USA) UIU Universal Imaging Utility UIU Unità Immobiliari Urbane (Italian) UIU User Interface Unit UIU Urology Investigation Unit UIU United International Universities ) software from Binary Resource who are introducing UIU 2.0 to the UK. Cloning was originally developed as a method of quickly setting-up new Windows computers and rolling out applications and updates at the Enterprise level. An 'ideal' Desktop computer's software and configuration is captured as an Image that is then replicated onto multiple machines using cloning software Software that copies the full image of a hard disk to another machine via direct cable or the network. Cloning saves time setting up new machines by eliminating the installation of the operating system and each individual application. See image file, reimaging, ghosting server and clone. . The Enterprise IT landscape, however, has become vastly more complex, with constant updates to applications, configuration software, plug-ins, intelligent chips and motherboards. This means that two otherwise identical Desktop computers (let alone adding Laptops to the mix) can have enough driver differences to cause the cloning process to render machines inoperable inoperable /in·op·er·a·ble/ (in-op´er-ah-b'l) not susceptible to treatment by surgery. in·op·er·a·ble adj. Unsuitable for a surgical procedure. without considerable manual modification. Version 2.0 of the Universal Imaging Utility (UIU) was developed by Big Bang big bang Model of the origin of the universe, which holds that it emerged from a state of extremely high temperature and density in an explosive expansion 10 billion–15 billion years ago. LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control and it resolves this issue by simplifying the process, ensuring that, when an Image is taken of the ideal machine, all the driver combinations required by each machine are made available to each machine. Running UIU on the selected ideal machine prior to an Image being captured means error messages DOS and Windows error messages are listed individually in this database by the message that is displayed when they occur. See also DOS error messages and Application Error.  and 'blue screen' failures on
the subsequent clone machines are virtually eliminated. Rolling-out
software updates and setting-up new Desktops and Laptops can be managed
within a matter of minutes A Matter of Minutes is an episode from the television series The New Twilight Zone. Cast
UIU 2.0 has been developed to work with leading cloning applications such as Symantec Ghost, Drive Image Pro and PowerQuest, Altiris Migration Suite, Novell ZENworks and Acronis TrueImage, making it possible for these programs to create a single, clean Disk Image. The Image created will work with virtually any Windows platform or configuration. www.binary.com Paul Hollingsworth, Celona Technologies |
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