ImageConnect is Now Micro’s solution for using a customer’s ConfigMgr task sequence to image devices they purchase from us. Internally we give each ImageConnect customer a unique VLAN that’s designed to service PXE requests for their environment. Before 2Pint, we maintained a table mapping customer to VLAN ID and our staff would need to SSH in to the appropriate switch to change the VLAN. This blog post will describe how Now Micro uses the iPXE Anywhere solution from 2Pint Software to help us remove some of the manual steps by automating the VLAN switching process. Continue reading “Improving ImageConnect with 2Pint”
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Deploying Media Players without fear of Configuration Error
Deploying hundreds if not thousands of systems on a national or international digital signage roll out is a daunting task for any organization. As a system integrator with a focus on device management we have helped companies prepare devices for field deployment by third party implementation companies for years.
A Typical Deployment
The deployment process usually plays out as a multi-stage process involving a different partner at each step. First, an operating system image is designed in collaboration with our engineers, the Digital Signage/CMS provider and the end-user, and optionally an operations/monitoring partner. Continue reading “Deploying Media Players without fear of Configuration Error”
Better manage PC refreshes using ImageConnect
As computers become more of the medium for content creation and consumption in education, the device count continues to increase every year. Today’s education IT departments are challenged with procuring, managing, deploying, and securing those devices in exponentially increasing numbers each year. ImageConnect was developed by Now Micro to alleviate the burden of provisioning PCs from deployment to delivery for medium to large school districts.
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