The WinINSTALL Desktop Availability Suite contains the integration of a robust migration engine and all of the WinINSTALL Desktop Management Suite's functionality including MSI packaging, software distribution, asset management, patch management, license compliance and much more.

PC Migration Doesn’t Have to be a One-Time Event

Some form of PC migration or PC upgrade takes place nearly every day in the enterprise. Migration has often been thought of as a one time event that is associated with the major project of moving a large number of corporate PCs from a legacy Windows platform to a new operating system platform such as the move to Windows XP. PC migration also should not be thought of as a one time event, but a day to day management of the PC environment assuring desktop availability over the lifecycle of all the machines. Functions that are associated with PC migration include:

• MSI Packaging
• Hardware/Software Inventory
• Multiple Software Distribution Mechanisms
• PC Personality Backup/Restore
• Local Data Backup/Restore
• Operating System and Service Pack Installation
• Patch Management
• Complete Client Reset for System Repair

PC Migration for Disaster Recovery

Another use of PC migration is with disaster recovery where locally saved data and user personality may need to be replaced or even in the situation where Windows becomes unstable and a complete client reset is more useful than dispatching technicians to desktops to troubleshoot and repair the Windows environment. OnDemand Software continues its quest to remove the need to visit a desktop to solve any software issues.

Easy, Flexible and Powerful Features

• Transfer applications and data from one PC to another PC
• Backup of user personality and locally saved data from a single PC to a repository
• Restore the user personality and locally saved data from a single PC to a repository
• Policy creation of settings, preferences, options of the operating system and applications as well as type of data backup that can be applied directly to a single machine or to a group of machines such as an Active Directory OU
• Policy distribution of the settings, preferences, options of the operating system and applications as well as type of data backup that can be restored to a single machine or to a group of machines such as an Active Directory OU
• Remote Client Reset which can install the operating system, application load set, restore the user personality, locally saved data and inventory the asset post migration to continue the lifecycle management of the machine

PC Migration and Integration

All of the above functions are important in the day-to-day management of the desktop environment and should leverage all other functions such as MSI packaging, software distribution, operating system installation, asset and inventory management, patch management and provide a single reporting engine across all areas.

The WinINSTALL Desktop Availability Suite is very tightly integrated, allows unlimited consoles to be run, no additional modules need to be licensed and installed at a cost that is lower than most tools today.

The Desktop Availability Suite integrates and leverages the information of each part of the product where others have worked hard to make sure that modules are required for optimum use. Add on modules and connectors are nothing more than a new venture on the bag of tools approach. You are asked to do more with less. We believe we have solutions that allow that approach.