Advantages and Benefits of Using DS eXpress Tools (DeT)
Unlike other products that require significant retraining, upgrade hassles and additional infrastructure, DeT provides the DS enhancements users have requested and makes them available in the existing DS 6.9 environment. DeT has an easy to use console that will remind you of the familiar DS console with its quick real time response and legendary performance. DeT is straightforward and easy to install, thus eliminating setup hassles that can come with other tools.
Advantages:
- DeT provides all the benefits of a consolidated, homogenous cross-server DS environment with minimal disruption to current endpoint management strategies.
- DeT provides the DS enhancements that users have been requesting for years and makes them available in the existing DS 6.9 environment.
Benefits:
- Be empowered to keep using DS 6.9 - the trusted tool of choice for thousands of IT professionals and arguably the best deployment tool on the market.
- Gain access to compelling extended functionality that has been requested by DS users for years but never before integrated with DS.
- Use these new tightly-integrated features while still taking advantage of the performance, flexibility, and feature set of DS 6.9.
- Avoid the disruption and expense associated with migrating all processes, projects, and existing jobs to an incompatible deployment environment.
- Avoid costly hierarchical infrastructure upgrades and the associated hardware expense.
- Avoid costly retraining of IT personnel.
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Interesting fact: All demonstration and breakout session lab computers at Symantec's Manage Fusion 2009 and Vision 2010 conferences in Las Vegas were configured and managed with DS 6.9, even though Symantec was at those conferences recommending to customers that they should move to DS 7.x.
Advantages:
- DeT has an easy-to-use Windows-based console that resembles the legacy DS console and duplicates much of its functionality with a new updated interface.
- The DeT console can control multiple DS servers from a single, consolidated console
Benefits:
- Continue to work with the Windows-based DS console - a user interface environment that is familiar and comfortable to all current DS users.
- Be productive immediately using the DeT Windows-based console which will seem familiar to any long-time DS user.
- Get more done is less time with consolidated access to multiple DS servers.
- Get new features along side current DS functionality in a single, familiar Windows-based user interface
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Advantages:
- Get all the benefits of cohesive centralized endpoint management and reports without the downsides of performance bottlenecks, hierarchical dependencies, and hardware bloat.
- The ability to affiliate multiple DS servers in a peer-to-peer topology is an improvement over a hierarchical architecture in terms of performance.
Benefits:
- Avoid having to use disparate management systems
- Have the ability to perform streamlined network administration from a single cohesive interface
- Easily pull reports from DS servers
- Instantly obtain integrated information from multiple DS servers without resorting to manual SQL queries or other difficult to use tools
- Easily configure which DS server(s) to include in reports
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Interesting fact: DeT has allowed large companies with multiple DS servers to get a complete, consolidated look at their network assets for the first time.
Advantages:
- Compliance with government regulations by providing report documentation for auditors (particularly for thin clients)
- Consolidated reports that pull real-time data from multiple DS servers simultaneously
- After running a Windows 7 readiness report, create a DS group from report to run more comprehensive Windows 7 readiness utilities from MS with a DS job
- Inventory and job status reports are available directly from managed computer database maintained by DS
- No guesswork is involved in creating report filters since all of the data in filter pull-downs is populated directly from the DS database
- With configurable permissions, grant real-time inventory report views to anyone in the organization without giving them any other privileges
Benefits:
- Easily access the wealth of data that is in the DS database thus freeing up your expensive DBA resource for critical tasks
- Never again resort to writing hairy database queries by hand and then wonder if the data is correct
- Give proactive reports to management, use to work up budgets (by exporting to Excel), and become a valuable source of information
- With easily accessible reports, only upgrade hardware that needs to be upgraded, thus overall lower cost of deploying new systems
- When requested, be empowered to provide immediate knowledge of hardware and software inventory
- With full inventory data, be able to simultaneously schedule hardware refresh and software rollout thus maximizing limited IT budgets
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Interesting fact: A DS-based Windows 7 readiness report would be a crucial tool for the 70% of Altirigos.com respondents who say they are going to use DS 6.9 rather than any other tool to do their Windows 7 migration.
Advantages:
- Know exactly what jobs have run on a given machine in a specified time frame, hence what images, packages, etc. have been deployed
- With configurable permissions, grant real-time job status report views to anyone in the organization without giving them any other privileges
Benefits:
- DS administrators can have job information at their fingertips, thus providing valuable, real-time information to decision makers
- Real-time access to reports means no more out-of-date information being used by decision makers
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Advantages:
- Job execution notification and alerts for unattended job monitoring
- Used in combination with job status reports, e-mail job monitoring allows for flexibility and improved productivity when performing complex migration and deployment tasks.
- Automatic e-mail based monitoring is simpler than other manual monitoring methods.
Benefits:
- Eliminate the need to manually monitor DS jobs, thus freeing up time for other priorities.
- Keep track of overnight and weekend job runs without having to be on site.
- Gain the confidence of decision makers in the organization by ensuring that priority jobs are always attended to in a timely fashion.
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Advantages:
- Full Windows 7 support now
- Full featured
- No client to manually install
Benefits:
- Easy access from DeT console for support desk
- No other expensive tool is required
- No hassle one-click automatic remote control configuration of endpoints
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Advantages:
- Ability to disable console features so that the DS eXpress Tools reporting application can be used as a stand-alone report dashboard for management personnel
- Single point management of users and access, can restrict or grant privileges to DeT reports, Remote Control, etc
- Keep permissions for DeT functionality appropriately separated by departmental / functional roles
Benefits:
- Unauthorized personnel will not be able to do anything harmful with DeT
- Keep things appropriately separated by department
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Advantages:
- No need for multiple agents on the endpoint to gather inventory; everything needed is right there in Deployment Solution
- Performance for managing multiple DS servers is the same as with a single server with no hierarchical bottlenecks
Benefits:
- With no central server hierarchy, hardware expense goes down
- Lower maintenance costs
- Bring sanity to an otherwise unwieldy network organization
- Lower cost of deploying new systems
- Consolidated toolset within the DS environment
- Lower maintenance costs
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Advantages:
- The non-web based DeT product is easy to install and maintain
- Install process easily accommodates installs against DS servers with remote databases
Benefits:
- Network security is preserved with no open http ports
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