Maintaing Multiple Images ?

[PowerLifter1450]

Hi everyone, I work at a college were we have about 30 different images
for all of the various computer labs on campus; we have this many
mainly due to different software configurations (i.e.- all the science
apps for the science lab, multimedia for other labs, etc).required for
each lab It is obviously a pain updating things such as service packs
of standard programs (i.e. - Novell Client, Zen Works, Windows) on
every single image, an addition to the various "specialty software"
update. I was wondering what the best way to condense all of this is?
Is there any way to maintain one base image (i.e.- Office + email +
basic software) while updating the speciality software separately? Any
advice is appreciated.

 

[Malke]

Hi everyone, I work at a college were we have about 30 different images
for all of the various computer labs on campus; we have this many
mainly due to different software configurations (i.e.- all the science
apps for the science lab, multimedia for other labs, etc).required for
each lab It is obviously a pain updating things such as service packs
of standard programs (i.e. - Novell Client, Zen Works, Windows) on
every single image, an addition to the various "specialty software"
update. I was wondering what the best way to condense all of this is?
Is there any way to maintain one base image (i.e.- Office + email +
basic software) while updating the speciality software separately? Any
advice is appreciated.

Look into the Acronis Enterprise products. I know their Universal
Restore handles different hardware configurations and maybe they have
something similar for different software, too.

Malke