Document Outline

• Preface
• Contents
• Chapter 1. Overview
• Chapter 2. General setup
  • Networking
  • Installing and configuring LANDesk
  • Provisioning the storage array
  • Building a base image
  • Creating user images
    • Selecting the type of image you wish to use
• Chapter 3. Networking considerations
  • Infrastructure requirements
  • Diskless client architecture
  • Active Directory considerations
  • iSCSI boot
  • Capacity
  • Link aggregation (Bonding)
  • Packet loss
  • Network topology
• Chapter 4. Secure Managed Client specific installation
  • Prerequisites
  • Secure Managed Client manual setup
    • Secure Managed Client switches
  • Secure Managed Client - Storage Array setup
  • Secure Managed Client management core installation
  • Secure Managed Client Storage Array provisioning
• Chapter 5. LANDesk Information
  • Secure Managed Client / LANDesk setup
    • Retrieving the Secure Managed Client Console
    • Prerequisites
      • Internet packages
      • Internet Information Services (IIS) configuration
      • Secure Managed Client server
    • Installing LANDesk
    • Upgrading from Secure Managed Client version 1.2 to 2.0
      • Installing the LANDesk Service Pack and the SMC 2.0 Management Console
      • Updating the boot image on the Storage Array
    • Configuring the LANDesk Secure Managed Client console
      • Starting LANDesk Management Suite
      • Provisioning the storage array
      • Creating a standard base image
      • Populating a base image
      • Creating a standard image or single image user image
      • License upgrades
      • Off-core connection manager
  • Image types
    • Standard image
    • Single image
      • Creating a single image base image
      • Creating a single image user image
    • Local cache image
      • Creating a local cache base image
      • Enabling SMC clients for local cache
      • Creating local cache user images
      • Deploying local cache on SMC clients
    • Assigned seating
  • Pristine image
• Chapter 6. Secure Managed Client image creation and tuning
  • Creating Sysprep images
    • Preparing a Windows XP image
    • Cloning an existing Windows XP image
    • Preparing a Windows Vista image
      • Preparing a new Windows Vista image for Secure Managed Client
      • Preparing a Windows Vista preload on a Lenovo M57 with service partition but no separate active system partition for Secure M
      • Preparing regular Windows Vista for Secure Managed Client
      • Redeploying the Lenovo M58p Vista preload image to the Secure Managed Client environment
      • Cloning an existing Windows Vista image
  • Image optimization
    • Scheduled tasks
      • Antivirus
      • Indexing and search utilities
      • Bridge Connections
      • Defragmentation
      • Updates
      • Image protection
    • Application compatibility testing
      • Collecting Windows performance traces (WPT)
      • Identifying slow services and processes
      • Identifying erratic behavior
    • Operating system services
      • Automatic
      • Automatic (delayed)
      • Manual / Disabled
    • Recommendations
      • Windows XP services
      • Windows Vista services
      • ThinkVantage® Technologies
      • Optimize the Sysprep image for best performance
      • Improving Vista performance
  • Roaming user profiles and folder redirection
• Chapter 7. Populating a base image
  • Using bootable CD/DVD media
    • SMCWinPE.iso
    • Connecting to a target image LUN on an SMC Storage Array using the iSCSI Initiator
    • Copying a multiple partition image to the storage array, version 1.x
    • Copying a multiple partition image to the storage array, Version 2.0
  • Deploying the image directly to the storage array
  • Boot acceleration
  • Hints and tips
  • If not using a Lenovo CD
• Chapter 8. Setting up network shares
• Chapter 9. Configuring synchronous and asynchronous replication
  • Prerequisites
  • Creating synchronous replication
  • Creating asynchronous replication
  • Manual failover
• Chapter 10. Troubleshooting
  • Problems
    • Storage array diagnostics
    • Secure Managed Client will not boot
    • Clients will not boot after moving the Management Console
    • Management Core Server IP address has changed
    • Provisioning fails
    • No user image
  • LANDesk logs
  • Unique network failure points
  • Binding order in the Secure Managed Client environment
    • Changing the binding order for Windows XP
    • Changing the binding order for Windows Vista
  • Limitations
• Appendix. Notices
  • Trademarks
• Glossary