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ImageCast

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Combined with a newly designed, wizard-based Graphical User Interface (GUI) and wizard driven Standalone Client and Multicast Client, ImageCast is the most comprehensive, yet user-friendly imaging package on the market today.
At the basic level, ImageCast produces copies of model hard drives, including the boot track, partitions, registry settings, and applications - and restores these copies or "images" onto target drives. Cloning multiple machines with Windows 95/98/NT/2000 is fast & easy.
Following deployment, use ImageCast Post Configuration Injector (patent pending) to customize each workstation with its individual settings such as the User Name, Computer Name and IP Address. Workstations running on Windows NT and Windows 2000 automatically maintain their unique Security Identifier numbers (SIDs) with ImageCast's integrated SID Creator.
Self-extracting packages of applications, device drivers and other updates can easily be created with AppNstall. You can even remotely send and execute multiple files and applications from one central location, the Control Center, without user interruption, using the new StorageSoft System Agent. ImageCast is also SNMP compatible for enterprise integration with such products as IBM Tivoli.
ImageCast is the only cloning product to offer USB to USB Support in standalone mode. ImageCast also supports imaging drives over Ethernet and Token Ring networks.
ImageCast is also your best Windows 2000 migration and rollout solution. ImageCast is the only cloning product with a Windows 2000 pre-imaging utility. Win2KPrep with integrated Microsoft SysPrep support is the only solution for ensuring a smooth Windows 2000 rollout.

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Features

Control Center

• Windows 95/NT/2000 Multicasting Server
• Drag & Drop user interface
• Simultaneous multicast sessions
• Token Ring and Ethernet support
• Full DHCP support
• Full control over multicast and network traffic
• Post configuration for Windows 95/98/2000/NT 4.0
• Any restored image supports post configuration
• PXE Boot Server integration
• Designed as a Wired For Management (WFM) solution
• Remote reboot functionality
• Client Boot Disk Wizard (ClientBuilder)
• Multicast Server Password Security
• Event-triggered e-mail messages and/or custom applications

Client interface

• Graphical user interface in a DOS environment
• Native generic mouse support
• Self-contained "Wizard" behavior in Standalone Mode
• Multi-language support

Core cloning functionality

• Internal cloning (direct disk-to-disk)
• Internal partition cloning
• Support for USB connectivity
• Create entire-disk or single-partition images
• Restore images as an entire hard-disk or as the primary partition(s)
• Selectively restore one partition from a multi-partition image
• Image file verification using CRC-32
• Large disk support (> 1023 cylinders)
• Large image file support (> 2047 MB)
• Supports both SCSI and IDE hard-disk types

Native file system support

• FAT12 (e.g., Compaq diagnostic partitions)
• FAT16
• "NT FAT" (> 2GB FAT16/64Kb clusters)
• FAT32 (Windows 98 and 2000)
• NTFS (Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0)
• NTFS-5 (Windows 2000)
• EXT2 (Linux)
• Sector-by-sector (physical read) method for unsupported file-systems
• Sector-by-sector may be forced for supported file-systems (e.g., archival or data preservation)
• Supported file-systems can be fully re-sized upon restore

Peer to peer

• Peer to peer cloning or imaging via USB

Image file compression

• 9 compression levels
• Stac / HiFn Compression

Enhanced Windows NT and Windows 2000 support

• Native recognition of FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS
• Integrated client SID regeneration
• Win2KPrep - Windows 2000 Model System Preparation Utility with integrated support for MS System Preparation (SysPrep) Tool
• Automatic Windows NT domain membership after cloning
• Fully automatic post configuration

Additional functionality

• Application imaging / "SnapShot Technology"
• Physical disk-to-disk copy
• Backward compatibility
• Most behavior is user-adjustable
• Norton Anti-Virus compatible
• Skipping of FAT files and directories when cloning
• Image file security (encryption, passwords)
• All image files include a comments field
• Span an image across multiple media
• Event triggers for notification and automation
• Fully searchable Event/Task Logs
• Support for long file-names (beyond 8.3)
• Full script file support
• "Test Restore" mode (test restoring an image without writing to disk)
• Task Scheduling features for automation
• Automatic client licensing

Client portability

• Small executable size (one diskette)
• Run from diskette (created with ClientBuilder)
• Boot with simple driver support to run from CD/Network
• Run as PXE Server Boot Option

Included complementary tools

• NT SID changer
• NT SID changer integrated into client
• ImageExplorer for Visual Inspection or Individual-file Extraction
• Pre-imaging Preparation Tools
• Ghost Image File Converter
• Windows Application Imager (95/98/NT)
• Win2KPrep System Preparation Utility

Technical support and maintenance

• 90 days free technical support
• 1 Year Free upgrades and enhancements
• Comprehensive, accessible documentation
• Online Technical Forum

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