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HP ConfigTailor — An Overview

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1 HP ConfigTailor - An Overview HP ConfigTailor is a software deployment and recovery tool-a complete solution for helping MIS staff and end-users quickly, easily and reliably install their corporate operating environment onto HP Kayak PC Workstations. This new tool is a powerful suite of software utilities that build upon the unattended setup features incorporated into Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 to allow simultaneous and unattended installation of complete operating environments onto multiple PC workstations. The HP ConfigTailor CD-ROM is multi-functional-designed to be useful to all HP Kayak PC Workstation customers: 1 Customers with large operations can use HP ConfigTailor to manage their software installations centrally using a client/server configuration, allowing MIS staff to: • Construct a robust network-accessible database server to act as a storehouse of all required software components. • Define customized configuration profiles to install relevant drivers and software applications onto targeted client PC workstations. Each client PC Workstation can: • If authorized, install components from the database in addition to those pre-selected for them in an installation profile (for HP ConfigTailor 1.0 only). • Recover their operating system environment and system configuration in the event of a system crash. English 1

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HP ConfigTailor — An Overview
HP ConfigTailor is a software deployment and recovery tool—a
complete solution for helping MIS staff and end-users quickly, easily
and reliably install their corporate operating environment onto HP
Kayak PC Workstations. This new tool is a powerful suite of software
utilities that build upon the unattended setup features incorporated
into Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 to allow simultaneous and unattended
installation of complete operating environments onto multiple PC
workstations.
The HP ConfigTailor CD-ROM is multi-functional—designed to be
useful to all HP Kayak PC Workstation customers:
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Customers with large operations
can use HP ConfigTailor to
manage their software installations centrally using a client/server
configuration, allowing MIS staff to:
•
Construct a robust network-accessible database server to act as a
storehouse of all required software components.
•
Define customized configuration profiles to install relevant
drivers and software applications onto targeted client PC
workstations.
Each client PC Workstation can:
•
If authorized, install components from the database in addition to
those pre-selected for them in an installation profile (for HP
ConfigTailor 1.0 only).
•
Recover their operating system environment and system
configuration in the event of a system crash.