Posted on Nov 18, 2011 | Comments Off
Training Dates:
January 16, 2012 - January 20, 2012
Description:
Learn advanced OS deployment techniques utilizing Swimage, the most efficient and easy-to-use OS provisioning tool on the market. This week-long course will focus on all of the necessary deployment techniques necessary for your Windows 7 migration, ongoing PC lifecycle management, and break-fix redeployment procedures.
The agenda will include:
- Deployment Project Planning
- Application Management
- Image Creation and Management
- Hardware and Driver Management
- Patch Management
- Data and State Migration
- Role-based Deployment and Customization
- Distributed and Remote Deployment Logistics
- Zero-Touch Deployment
Location:
Intrinsic Technologies – Headquarters
1011 Warrenville Rd., Suite 155
Lisle, IL 60532
If you are interested in attending Swimage University or you have questions or comments you can call 630-769-4111 or contact us using the form below.
Posted on Mar 17, 2011 | Comments Off
Wow, the years go by fast don’t they? We are super excited to be back at MMS this year, talking about our Microsoft System Center experience and heralding our new IT:Jumpstart offerings. If you are thinking about deployment, virtualization or just optimizing your systems management infrastructure talk to us – we have packaged services that can help you develop a “Proof of Concept” or Production Pilot in as little as 5 days. You get the best solution and a recognized leader assisting you along the way.
Posted on Jan 15, 2011 | Comments Off
Everyone talks about it, but what does it really mean? Reliable Zero Touch is the ability to not only re-image a machine, but also deploy to new operating systems while migrating all data, packaged applications and users settings without having a technician physically touch the machine. Beyond that, Swimage Encore allows you to be certain that every machine will be 100% successful before the deployment cycle ever begins (or it will be aborted) and that every user will be notified dynamically of their scheduled date with a list of their applications from the moment their machine is targeted. The real- time web based console allows system administrators to follow the progress of every machine from target to completion from a single location. No product on the market compares. Period.
Contact our sales team today for more information and to arrange for a demonstration of how we can help you get to a Zero Touch Deployment environment.
Posted on Jul 8, 2010 | Comments Off
Swimage Encore New Features
The latest release of
Swimage Encore (Build 5.0.7) contains many new optimizations and advancements in deployment. Native virtual application support as part of the deployment process is only the tip of the iceberg. This release offers a number of significant and, we feel, exciting new features. Here is a quick review of the most notable.
Dynamic Application Deployment
While most activities in Swimage Encore are explicit and deterministic (i.e., Roles and Templates are used to specify EXACTLY what will be installed on a new deployment or a redeployed machine), there are times when an administrator would like to be able to simply reset a machine to the existing configuration (hardware, location, domain, OU and application) status but on a clean installation of the operating system. With Swimage Encore’s new Dynamic Application Deployment, enabled by our new Discovery phase, deployment can now be just that simple. The Swimage Encore Conductor will scan the targeted machine for installed applications and compare them to a manifest that is stored on the Swimage Encore server. Administrators can create ‘matching rules’ on the server to dictate which applications should be installed based on easy to use wildcard definitions. Your corporate standard is Adobe Reader? Make sure all machines, when they are redeployed, receive your latest and greatest by creating a rule that stipulates “Any machine running Adobe Reader of any version NOW will be deployed with Adobe Reader 9.2.” By allowing administrators to create the rules on the server, when deployment is triggered, those rules can dictate migration activities through the use of a dynamic template reducing deployment configuration time dramatically while helping rationalize your environment at the same time! This feature allows the person deploying the machine to be blissfully ignorant as to what is on the machine and to simply state the Role a machine should be (which includes OS, core apps, etc…) and let Encore figure out all customizations that are necessary for each individual user. (This is real power!)
Hardware ‘Wildcarding’
Encore has always allowed an administrator to setup drivers and link them to specific hardware models. This method is great in that it allows the administrator to specify specific drivers for a model preventing driver version conflicts. There are times however when manufacturer’s will differentiate the same model (that uses the same drivers). Encore now allows hardware ‘Wildcarding’ to associate a set of drivers with multiple defined hardware objects.
Hardware Approval
We already know that Swimage Encore does an amazing job of populating your driver database rapidly through its implementation of the Driver Interrogator. In an effort to enable more granular control of the use of those drivers, now administrators can choose to approve hardware models for specific OS’s before they are considered active. This additional level of control and auditing will prevent accidental deployment to unsupported hardware and OS configurations. If a hardware model that is not approved for a given OS is attempted to be deployed with that OS, the process will abort gracefully with no modifications to the target system.
Discovery Phase
This new phase in the Swimage Encore deployment process is executed by the Conductor on the client. The Conductor will now scan the targeted machine for inventory data (fear not, we are not trying to supplant your current inventory toolset, just trying to improve deployment process) that is relevant to the deployment process. Currently scanned items include time zone, organization unit, domain and applications installed. That data is reported back to the Swimage Encore server and can be leveraged by all new features of the system to enable dynamic image deployment.
Posted on Jun 23, 2010 | Comments Off
Hunger-relief nonprofit Feeding America needed a desktop operating system that would enable it to provide centralized PC management and support to more than 200 member food banks across the United States. The organization standardized on
Windows 7 Enterprise and is using
Swimage Encore from
Intrinsic Technologies to rapidly deploy Windows 7 to locations throughout the country. By choosing Windows 7, Feeding America is maximizing user productivity in many ways, including PC speed and responsiveness; ease of navigation; faster and more relevant search; and improved Web browsing. The organization’s choice of technology also provides an environment that can be effectively managed and supported through the use of features that streamline deployment, facilitate system management, increase security, and enhance troubleshooting.
Read the Case Study published by Microsoft at: http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?CaseStudyID=4000007381
Posted on Jun 14, 2009 | Comments Off
Chicago, IL — June 24, 2009 — Today, Intrinsic Technologies proudly announced it has been selected as the 2009 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference Awards winner in Unified Communications Solutions, Voice. The company was chosen out of an international field of top Microsoft partners as delivering market-leading customer solutions built on Microsoft technology.
“We are very excited to be acknowledged by Microsoft as a leader in deploying Microsoft Unified Communications technologies. This award further validates our commitment to our clients and partners in providing solutions that enable rich collaboration while reducing overall operating costs,” said Tom Egan, Practice Manager at Intrinsic, “We feel that Microsoft Exchange and Office Communications Server along with best of breed partner products offer a rich set of features and a great return on investment for organizations we work with.”
Awards will be presented in a number of categories, with winners chosen from a pool of nearly 2,000 entrants worldwide. The Unified Communications Solutions, Voice Partner of the Year award recognizes partners with proven expertise in planning and implementing Voice over IP (VoIP), unified messaging, and conferencing solutions using Microsoft Office Communications Server and Microsoft Exchange Server. Intrinsic Technologies solutions showcase how our customers’ business needs are met using the power of software that delivers complete communications—messaging, voice, and video—across the applications and devices that people use every day.
“Microsoft is proud to recognize Intrinsic Technologies for their innovative solutions, which leverage Microsoft’s Unified Communications to reduce overall communications costs and enable their customers to collaborate more effectively,” said Ross Brown, Vice President, Solution Partners and ISVs, Microsoft Corp. “Intrinsic Technologies has helped customers to dramatically reduce travel and operational costs through the use of unified communications solutions, generating an immediate return on their customers’ investments.”
The Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions over the last year.
