Deployment through a deployment task

By using a deployment task, you can perform deployment in either of these ways:

• Deployment to a specified list of machines. Acronis Snap Deploy 5 will use the Wake-on-LAN functionality to wake up the machines that are turned off and thus are not ready for deployment.
• Deployment as soon as a specified number of any machines become ready for deployment. You (or users in your organization) will need to make the machines ready.

A machine becomes ready for deployment after it boots into an agent from a bootable media or a PXE server, and then connects to OS Deploy Server.

Note: If the machine does not boot into the agent and the machine has Secure Boot enabled, we recommend disabling Secure Boot on this machine as a workaround.

In addition, you can run any deployment task manually from the Deployment tasks view.

A deployment task runs according to a deployment template. When creating the task, you can create a deployment template or specify an existing one.