Update Configurator Help System
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Features

Update Configurator can install and maintain Windows 9x workstations on a network. It is aimed at schools, institutions and companies with groups of identical workstations that have a lot of different users that can not allways be trusted to leave the workstation as they found it.

Update Configurator will:

Ease the installation of new workstations
With Update Configurator you only have to install Windows 9x to a single workstation. Then you can use Update Configurator to create an archive on your server and copy the contents of the workstation to the archive. With the special Update Configurator Boot Diskette you can now set up new workstations with customized name, description and IP address.
Maintain configured workstations
Update Configurator will configure your workstations to make their harddisk(s) match a specific archive on each boot. This will delete new files and copy changed/deleted files down from the archive. -Your users will allways find the workstations the same after a boot.
Ease the installation of new programs
Install the new program to a single workstation and copy it to the archive with Update Configurator. You can now change the archive version of any workstation using the archive to have the program copied to their harddisk on the next boot (new registry settings will not be present until the second boot).
Enable quick error recovery
If the system on one of your configured workstations has been ruined to the point were it can not run UPDATE (the program to make the harddisk match an archive), just boot it from the Update Configurator Boot Diskette and it will automatically recover.
Allow experiments with configurations
Update Configurator keeps a complete history of changes to an archive. This makes it safe to experiment with new settings/installation of new programs. Just make your experiments and save the results to the archive - until you explicitly change the archive version used by the workstations this will have no effect but to allow you to pick up were you left some other day.
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Last modified 20. July 1998 by Steen Varsted