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) 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.

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 without considerable manual modification.

Version 2.0 of the Universal Imaging Utility (UIU) was developed by Big Bang LLC 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 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 and a previously complex and time-consuming operation can be transformed into a, straightforward, fully-automated task.

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.

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