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This is ZENworks Desktop Management 7 and this is the Course Recap and Concept Review video. In this video we're going to recap what we've gone over in the course of this tutorial. and put a nice neat bow on all of the concepts we've covered. First off we talked about Installation and Configuration. We discussed the installation prerequisites, the Hardware required to run the ZENworks Desktop Management Server, the Software required and all of the prerequisite Service Pack revisions and Packages that had to be installed if you were installing it on a Linux Host. We went through the Install on a Windows Server 2003. We installed it from our Windows XP Workstation and as you'll recall that was a fairly straightforward install. You just tell it where to go and click Go, and it does it. We then went through and set up all of the initial Objects in eDirectory; told the Policy Database where the Policies were located; we told the Inventory and NAL Database where those databases were located. We set up Automatic Workstation Import and if you'll recall we did a little basic troubleshooting of Automatic Workstation Import; how a workstation gets imported; how to set up those Policies; how to associate those Policies; and what to do when it all goes horribly, horribly wrong. We then installed the ZENworks Desktop Management Agent on our Managed PC. We went through all of the options that were available for installing the Agent, and we showed you some advanced troubleshooting for when the Agent doesn't seem to talk to the Tree properly. We then moved on to Workstation Management. We talked about Policies and Profiles; how you can set up Workstation Policies using the Group Policy Editor inside ConsoleOne. We also set up Workstation Import and Removal Policies and Workstation Naming Policies inside eDirectory. We discussed Remote Management. We showed how you could take over a workstation; how you could copy a file; launch an executable; gather the inventory information, which we actually discussed a little further down the Tutorial; and we talked about User Policies. The General Policies and the Group Policies that work almost exactly like the Workstation Management Policies, and in fact, are pretty much some of the same Policies that you would set up using the Group Policy Editor that comes with ConsoleOne and Windows XP. If you'll recall we discussed how with both Workstation Policies and User Policies you had to edit those Group Policies on the same platform that you are creating the policies for. For example, if you are managing a set of Windows 2000 boxes and you want to set up the Group Policy on those Windows 2000 boxes and distribute it through ZENworks you have to have ConsoleOne running on a Windows 2000 workstation so that you can edit those Group Policies that way. We also set up Dynamic Local User. We talked about how to set those Policies, how to Associate it with a workstation or with a user, and we talked about how they are almost always associated with a user because they are considered a User Policy. We also discussed some of the pitfalls and gotchas where you might not want to set up Dynamic Local User, for example, if you had a network that was already running and you had local users, you would not want to set up a Volatile Dynamic Local User or else all of the user's data would just go away. Then we moved on to Application Objects. We created an MSI-based Object, we created a Transform using the InstallShield Suite for ZENworks, and if you'll recall, we Transformed the ZENworks Desktop Management Agent Install and we set up an Application Object that would use that Transform that we created to deploy the Workstation Management Agents to whatever managed workstations we had. We created a Legacy Install-based Object. If you'll recall we did a snapshot of the Audacity for Windows Installer. We created simple Application Objects that launched Notepad, et cetera. We created the Web Application Object that went out to Google and just opened up Google in the Default Web Browser on the workstation and we created a Terminal Server Application Object, although we didn't test these because we don't have a Terminal Server in our Lab. We then talked about Application Management. We discussed all the Distribution Options, the distribution options being Run once and how to copy certain files and folders and registry settings; how to import and export those on a Legacy as well as an MSI-based install. We talked about the Run Options where you can tell the Application to only run once, or to run with certain network privileges or not to run at all, to just distribute software and disappear from the Desktop. We talked about the Common Options that are common to all of those different types of Application Objects, and we discussed Fault Tolerance where you have multiple Application Objects, or Multiple Application Sources for a given Application Object. We talked about syncing GUIDs and how that's a good idea if you have multiple of the same Application Objects scattered about your Tree, and we talked about the proper way to associate Application Objects to users. It's best to create a Group to put the users in and Associate the Application with that Group rather than each of the users individually. It puts a lot less strain on eDirectory if you do it that way. That is one of the Recommended Best Practices. And finally we moved on to Workstation Inventory. We set it up on our Inventory Server. We set up the Inventory Policies. We set up the Inventory Database, and we set up ConsoleOne to actually talk to that Inventory Database. We had to install the ODCB Driver for Sybase, if you recall correctly, which is a very straightforward install Ð it's all of two dll's. We showed you how to work with the data; how to get Inventory Information for a single workstation, or how to generate some of the canned reports about all of the Workstation data in the Database. We also discussed a little bit about Inventory Reporting; how you can use the canned reports or you can create your own queries and run them ad hoc, or possibly schedule them using some type of scheduling software on your workstation. And then finally we put all of this together and deployed Applications to some of our Lab machines just so you could see what happens when you deploy those Applications to actual live machines. And that concludes our Concept and Course Recap for ZENworks Desktop Management 7.