Editorial Review:

Amazon.com Item Description:
With Drive Image Pro 4.0, IT professionals can more effectively manage changing desktop environments by deploying images or upgrading multiple workstations within minutes. Drive Image Pro provides powerful cloning and deployment tools for PowerQuest's complete line of data management products. Whether the need is to distribute a new operating system, update an application suite, or simply move all of a user's personal files and settings from one computer to another, Drive Image Pro provides the answer.

The PowerCast feature (SmartSector technology combined with TCP/IP multicasting) makes simultaneously deploying an image to multiple systems fast and easy, while Delta Deploy can be used to deploy an upgrade for a single application. Drive Image Pro supports Microsoft RIS technology for installing or replacing operating systems. For added control, Drive Image Pro includes PartitionMagic Pro--PowerQuest's premier partitioning software. For added flexibility, Drive Image Pro now supports Windows Me and Windows 2000 Professional. Other features include new CD-R and CD-RW support; new native 32-bit Windows PowerCast Server--use SmartSector technology combined with TCP/IP multicasting to simultaneously deploy systems across the enterprise in minutes; new TaskBuilder, which provides an easy-to-use interface to build custom deployment scripts for use with any framework; and new enhanced operating system support for Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0 Workstation, Me, 2000 Professional, or DOS (5.0 or later).

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