IDEAL Dispatch
Remote Software Deployment and Uninstalling
IDEAL Dispatch
IDEAL Dispatch provides remote installing and uninstalling of software, remote running of scripts and programs, and remote actions (Files, UAC, Wake On Lan, etc.).
With the help of IDEAL Dispatch, you can remotely install Windows patches, run scripts and msi files, uninstall programs, or update software on all the servers and client workstations on your network, in Workgroup or Active Directory environment.
Main Software Features
- Windows Workgroup and Active Directory Deployments
- Manage Any Kind of Packages: EXE / COM / MSI / VBS
- Windows Hotfix Installer
- Remote Script Execution
- Multiple Actions can be Mixed into One Distribution
- Powerful Filters can be Configured on Actions or Distributions
- Wake On Lan Management to Start Stations Before Deploying
- Distribution Models for Later Execution
- All Deployments and Installations can be Scheduled
- Can be Installed and Executed from a Simple Workstation
- One License by IT Admin User for an Unlimited Number of Managed Domains, Servers and Workstations
Software Benefits
IDEAL Dispatch is quickly installed on any Windows stations or servers and can deploy MSI packages, Windows scripts, batch files or uninstall software. Its intuitive interface, as well as the management provided when adding a distribution server and creating a new distribution, make IDEAL Dispatch a very easy-to-use tool.
Software Licensing
One license for each administrator station where our software is installed, no matter how many servers and stations you have to manage! This ensuring the best price.
Software Maintenance
Each newly purchased license is valid indefinitely. It automatically includes one year of software maintenance and technical support.
Software maintenance allows you to use all the new product versions, minors as majors. Beyond the first year, you can, if you wish, renew software maintenance and technical support for one, two or three years.
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General Software Description
IDEAL Dispatch offers you a wide range of usage possibilities, thanks to the various types of actions that can be performedon clients and servers in your network:
- Command: Execute a MSDOS command.
- Delay: Define a delay between two actions.
- Event logs: Record a message into the Windows Events.
- Executable: Makes it possible to run a local or remote script file (.bat, .cmd, VB Script, .msi, .exe, .com, etc.).
- File: Makes it possible to copy, move, delete, edite of both files and directories.
- MSI: Makes it possible to install,repair, remove and announce a MSI file (.msi)
- Network drive: Add or remove a network drive.
- Post a message: Post a message on a remote station screen and propose to send a reply.
- Process: Kill a remote process.
- Send an email: Send an email to inform about a distribution for example.
- Service: Start, stop or restart a service.
- Software update: Makes it possible to install service packs or software updates.
- Registry: Modify station registry.
- System: Makes it possible to close a session, restart, shut-down, lock, put into extended stand-by, or cancel a direct action.
- UAC: Enable / Disable the station UAC.
- Uninstall : Makes it possible to uninstall software in classic or slient mode.
- VBScript: Makes it possible to run a local or remote VBScript file (.vbs).
- Wake On Lan: Wake up the target computer.
IDEAL Dispatch offers many functions providing many advantages in the management of all your computers:
- Planning the installation and running of distributions on a large number of servers and workstations.
- Selecting computers by group (All computers, All servers, All workstations, Windows 2008 Server, Windows 2003 Server, Windows 2000 Server…), or by name.
- Possibility of refining the selection of computers by applying fully customizable filters.
- Displaying clear and detailed error and event reports.
- Possibility of easily copying, modifying, and rescheduling a distribution.
- Simplified rescheduling of failed actions or computers with one click.
IDEAL Dispatch
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- Allows a software update to be run locally or remotely
- Assistant of deployment and simplified installation for a service pack or a software update by automatic detection of the installer engine (Update, Hotfix or IExpress)
- Allows a MSI file to be run locally or remotely
- Assistant of deployment, to install, repair, remove and announce a MSI file (.msi)
- Allows a script file to be run locally or remotely: .bat, .cmd, VB Script, .msi, .exe, .com, etc.
- Possibility of entering arguments
- Possibility of attaching files
- Support for Windows commands
- Allows a VBScript file to be run locally or remotely
- Assistant of deployment and simplified execution of the VBScript files (.vbs)
- Allows you to uninstall software in classic or in silent mode.
- Allows copying, moving, deletion, editing and printing of both files and directories
- Possibility of using environmental variables for specifying source and destination paths: %APPDATA%, %HomeDrive%, %HomePath%, %ProgramFiles%, %SystemDrive%, etc.
- Makes it possible to close a session, restart, shut-down, lock, put into extended stand-by, and cancel a direct action
- Possibility of displaying an alert message to warn the user for a certain time in seconds
- Makes it possible to force applications to close without warning
- Lists the installation and running reports for each action on each machine
- Use of icons in the list to quickly identify the type of action
- Makes it possible to find out with a simple click at all times: the date and time of the beginning and end of installation and running, the list of computers involved, successful or failed actions on each computer, the time and the cause of a failure
- Possibility of archiving installed and run distributions reports.
- Possibility of creating sub-folders in order to classify distributions reports.
- Makes it possible to select client workstations and servers based on their type:
- All computers
- All servers
- All workstations
- Or by selecting the OS type
- or by name using their NetBios
- or Active Directory name
- or even with their IP address
- Predefined filters: these are filters whose values and conditions are already filled in: OS version, OS type, version of Internet Explorer, Service Pack, processor, language, computer
- Customized filters: you can create your own filters from the registry. By default, a certain number of filters with registry data are offered to you. A registry explorer is available to you
- You can apply as many filters as you like
- It is possible to modify the interaction between filters by creating a filter equation: Filter1 AND Filter2; Filter1 OR Filter2
- Possibility of testing the filtering to estimate which computers from the selection will remain after filtering
- Lists the installation and running reports for each action on each machine
- Use of icons in the list to quickly identify the type of action
- Makes it possible to find out with a simple click at all times: the date and time of the beginning and end of installation and running, the list of computers involved, successful or failed actions on each computer, the time and the cause of a failure
- Possibility of archiving installed and run distributions reports.
- Possibility of creating sub-folders in order to classify distributions reports.
- Possibility of easily copying, modifying or scheduling a distribution with a right click, using the menu bar or using drag-and-drop
- By simply clicking on a distribution, an action or a computer, you can reschedule: the whole distribution, all the actions on a set of computers, only the failed actions on the set of computers, all the actions but only on the computers where there has been a failure, the failed actions on a set of computers
- Schedule an existing distribution
- Display all scheduled distributions
- Edit, rename, run, and delete a scheduled distribution
- Intuitive interface and documentation in English and localized versions
- Management when adding a distribution server and when creating a new distribution through displaying messages, checking the validity of data….
- Storing usage data in the memory, such as the size and chosen order of columns, the names of valid servers, start-up account…
- Can be installed in five minutes on any PC or server connected to your network.
- Display of the distribution summary in literal mode.
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