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We'll now move on to some of the other functions of ZENworks Desktop Management 7. We'll start off with Workstation Management. Workstation Management in ZDM7 is really designed to make traditional NetWare environments act like Active Directory, which is to say, if you don't have an Active Directory domain and your users don't authenticate against Active Directory, you can still make your network just as functional and just as policy-driven as you would with an Active Directory infrastructure. ZDM7 accomplishes this with policies and profiles. With the policies and profiles you can assign group policies right out of Active Directory to your workstations so that the same policies that are available to you in Active Directory users and computers and the GPO Editor, is available in a ZDM7 environment, and we'll go through that, obviously, as we cover Policies elsewhere in the Title. As you would in a Windows Network you can also turn on Roaming Profiles so that users get the same Desktop experience no matter which workstation they log into. You can also set Desktop Preferences such as the Screensaver, or the Font size or any number of Windows Desktop Preferences that we'll see as we load up ConsoleOne. And finally, if you have a policy that needs to be deployed that doesn't fit in any of the above policies or profiles you can create Extensible Policies. This way if you have an ADM file to administer, for example, Firefox you can import that ADM file into the Policies and Profiles section of ConsoleOne and apply those policies to your workstations just as you would any other policy that comes natively with ZDM7. Policies and Profiles can put the finishing touches on your ZENworks deployment. It can make your network very, very easy to manage if implemented properly, and we'll also show you some of the pitfalls and gotchas to implementing policies when we talk about policies elsewhere in the Title. Now we'll move on and we'll talk about Workstation Imaging. Workstation Imaging, as the name implies, allows you to create and deploy software images to your Windows workstations or servers. Most commonly this is used to deploy Windows Operating Systems, however I have seen it used with the Linux Operating System as well. That's a little outside the scope of this Title. We'll be showing you Workstation Imaging to deploy a Windows image, but as with any imaging solution the same steps apply no matter what the operating system, assuming that it's supported by the imaging environment. This imaging can be performed in a hands-on manner as in you go to the workstation and you force an image down to that workstation; or, it can be deployed via ConsoleOne, thereby making it very easy to image a workstation that's across the building or across the campus, or across the planet from your administrative workstation, wherever you happen to be sitting. Again, that's a very powerful tool. The workstation imaging, by default, does not back up any of the users' data, so if you just push out an image to a user's workstation and they don't have a backup of their data you're now in the hot seat for finding all of that user's data. It's not a particularly fun situation to be in. The images that you create can be saved locally on the Hard Drive of the workstation that you'll be imaging, or it can be saved on a Central Imaging server. There are advantages and disadvantages to both methods of image storage, and again, we'll talk about that as we get to the Workstation Imaging section of the Title. For images that are stored on a server, ZDM7 Workstation Imaging supports multicast imaging. This way, if you happen to image an entire lab of PCs you won't kill your network by sending the same bits to all 20 workstations. You can send one packet, one multicast packet, that all 20 workstations receive and that way you can image the entire lab in the time that it takes to image a single workstation normally. And finally, ZDM7 Workstation Imaging allows you to perform partition management on your Windows-based PCs. You can change the boot partition, you can change the active partition Ð we'll go over all of that, again, once we talk about Workstation Imaging elsewhere in the Title. Another facet of ZDM7 is Remote Administration. Of course you can perform Wake-on-Lan to any workstation that supports Wake-on-Lan. Once that machine is awake you can then do remote control, or remote view, just as you could with any number of remote control applications. You can remotely run executables. And interesting aspect of this is, that if you happen to be remote controlling a user and the user that you're remote controlling does not have local workstation administrator rights, then you can launch an executable process as a local workstation administrator. For example, if you needed to run Control Panel to change one of the networking settings, yet the local user that you're controlling doesn't normally have that right, you can launch control.exe as an administrative process and you can do then whatever you need to do. It also has a File Transfer function where you can send one or two files to the workstation for diagnostic purposes. Again, this is separate from the Application Distribution function of ZDM7 in that you're only sending one or two files instead of an entire application. You could send an entire application to File Transfer, but that would be extremely painful. Finally, you have a Remote Workstation Information Tool, where you can display the information about the target workstation without the end user's involvement. Essentially you launch the tool on your end, it goes and gathers the information in real time, and then you can see, oh, well, the reason you can't install this application I'm pushing out is because you only have 5 megs of free space on Drive C. It comes in very handy for troubleshooting.