I recently wrote a whitepaper on mass deployment of hundreds to thousands of laptops using Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager. This whitepaper is the result of several cooperative initiatives we deployed with our partners.

We frequently get the question from our partners on how to deploy BackupAgent clients on large numbers of laptops and desktops. A lot of those questions also involved Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM). As a result we now support this mass deployment scenario by a whitepaper explaining every detailed step on how to accomplish this.

The whitepaper does not apply on SCCM in particular. Our description for packaging our software for silent remote installation can also work within other software distribution environments.

We also created tools to do mass provisioning of accounts based on a comma-separated values file (*.csv). It even allows us to pre-generate encryption keys, since system administrators do not like to be dependent on user- chosen encryption keys for recovery of lost data.

In case you’re a BackupAgent partner and you’re interested in this whitepaper and/or the tools for mass provisioning, you can obtain this by requesting it from your Partner Account Manager.