Making PC Refresh a Breeze

Refreshing PC Hardware

Even in troubling economic times the prevalence of low-cost computer hardware makes PC hardware refreshes and upgrades, and the ability to safely decommission existing equipment, a common weekly task. The problem at hand is how do you effectively install an Operating System on a new machine, with all the applicable applications and settings, without the additional cost and disruption of setting foot at the user’s terminal? Additionally, how can you insure that the old machine data is gone, without purchasing some sort of “Wipe” utility ahead of time?

WinINSTALL solves the challenges of refreshing PC Hardware as follows:

  • WinINSTALL give the administrator the ability to perform secure sanitization of User’s hardware at the time of the PC Refresh or within scheduled time frames.
  • WinINSTALL, in a single fluid motion, allows you to perform a bare-metal installation of an Operating System, patched with the latest Windows Updates and Service Packs, joined to a domain and OU, locale, resolution, color depth and refresh rate set properly for video display, securely setting local administrator password and the ability to add local admin accounts as well as domain accounts, full integration of applications and restoration of your User’s application settings, files, and look and feel of their desktops or laptops.
  • Being able to accomplish all of the above from one console without stepping foot at the User’s workstation. WinINSTALL provides the System or Desktop Administrator all of the tools necessary to accomplish a complete PC Refresh of existing hardware and/or newly purchased hardware. Once configured, workstation’s can be reset from a centralized console either on the fly or as a scheduled task. Not only will this save you time, but it will save you money outsourcing resources to perform these tasks that can be accomplished through a main site console. No technical resources at remote sites, not a problem, using WinINSTALL’s share technology installation, you can install remote shares to accomplish these tasks.

Features

Benefits

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No sys-prepping required post OS installation.

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Limited time spent at User’s Desktop, all processes can be performed from a centralized console.

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Integrated Hot-fix and Service Pack installation.

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Machines are always at the latest Update level before they hit your network, limiting the chance of viruses attacking them.

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Application installation can be different for each workstation being refreshed.

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Less maintenance is required, no more management of multiple machine images.

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Clean Active Directory joining since you can specify specific OU’s for machines to be placed in.

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Cleaner Active Directory, since you are adding the machines to the appropriate containers.

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Multiple sanitization options available for securely cleaning a user’s old workstation.

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No risk of old data being found on a User’s old workstation.

Specifying Drivers

Defining the OS

Setting Post Install Actions

OS Templates

Refresh Workflow

Advanced PXE Properties

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