jasonmluna

Do you have a link?

Hello, here is the link to the people who put together this project for the universal imaging utility, http://www.uiu4you.com/. I would like to check it out. We have so many different PCs with different HALS.

I've never heard of Universal Imaging Utility, but I'm not quite clear on the benefit of it vs. other Symantec products out there.

According to the UIU website, UIU costs $20.14 per seat with minimum 50 licenses.  So to use UIU you would also have to have an enterprise or site license for 50 copies of Ghost x ($39.20 each for Symantec Solution Suite), which raises the question why do you want UIU?

The answer is the management, deployment, and restoration of dissimilar hardware in a company environment.  For that how is UIU different from Symantec's LiveState Recovery 6.0 (Restore Anywhere Option)?  Or, Symantec's Ghost Solution Suite 2.0?

Both of those products appear targeted at company wide management and deployment of backups in a corporate environment.

Also, don't forget it's not just the deployment of a master backup to 50 PC's that is wanted.  It's the backups of 50 PC's so that when you restore the image after a client hardware failure, you restore all the user's software and settings as well as the operating system.

I'm not saying UIU is good or bad; I would like to hear though from someone who has evaluated the Symantec products as well and compared the whole lot.

So your company had to buy minimum 50 licenses (x 20.14 = $1007)?

I guess that's fine for a company but kind of steep for home/consumer user.

http://www.binaryresearch.net/products/the_universal_imaging_utility/purchase