Mass Deployment Template DS-Client
Mass Deployment enables Enterprise/Service Providers to create a big number of accounts / DS-Clients on a DS-System, deploy the Windows DS-Client software in silent mode, and automatically configure each of those DS-Client software installations to ensure minimum time consumption for the end users.
Mass Deployment is only supported for Standalone DS-Clients (not for Grid DS-Clients).
From the DS-System side, Mass Deployment helps to speed up setup of DS-Client accounts. Instead of manually creating many DS-Client accounts, you can create one "Template DS-Client" for Mass Deployment and re-use the same connection information (or .CRI file) for all DS-Clients you want to deploy under that customer account:
1. A DS-Client is created with the "Mass Deployment Auto-Registration Counter" set.
- This is set in the DS-Client - Advanced Tab (see: "Changing a DS-Client's Advanced Options").
- This allows you to export one .CRI file from this "Template DS-Client" for distribution to customer(s). (For more information, see: "Export DS-Client Registration Information".)
2. The Auto-Registration Counter permits the displayed number of DS-Client installations to be created.
3. The DS-Clients will initially connect to the DS-System to register as the "Template DS-Client", but will be automatically assigned a different sequential DS-Client number.
4. This simplifies DS-Client creation in mass deployment scenarios: you only need to make one template, and all DS-Clients will be created with the same settings.
- Refer to the separate "DS-Client Mass Deployment & Automatic Configuration" Guide (found in the Documentation folder of the release DVD).
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