ZENworks for Desktops 3.2 Getting Started Guide

This Getting Started guide includes information about the installing, planning, setting up, and testing processes that ZENworks^® for Desktops (ZfD) customers will typically encounter while implementing this product on a test system.

Check the ZfD documentation Web site for updated or additional information.

This guide contains these major sections:

• Installation and Setup
• Automatic Workstation Import
• Workstation Management
• Application Management
• Workstation Imaging
• Remote Management
• Workstation Inventory
• Documentation Updates

ZENworks for Desktops 3.2 (ZfD 3.2) includes some new enhancements, including:

• Imaging enhancements (for more information, see Workstation Imaging).
  • Compression on disk - around 50% of original size
  • Compression over the wire - up to 20% less traffic
  • Advanced imaging accessible by policy
  • Server-based multicast
  • Integration with Preboot Services to enable the Preboot Execution Environment

• Enhanced thin client integration
  • Compatibility with Windows* 2000 Terminal Server
  • Compatibility with Citrix* MetaFrame XP

• New Policy Copy tool
• Enhanced Remote Control performance
  • Remote Control across a slow WAN connection
  • Up to 90% improvement over a LAN connection

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