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8 Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment in a Retail Environment
The deployment of a profile can be customized using a deployment scheme.
The default deployment scheme will be suficient for most deployments, but in
some cases there may be reasons to adjust the deployment to optimize
network bandwidth.
Configuration
Every profile has a configuration, which includes the attributes to apply when
deploying the profile.
Figure 1-2 The main processes for a Windows XP mass distribution
1.6 Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment in
retail environments
From an architectural point of view, a point-of-sale system consist of different
layers of software. This is illustrated in Figure 1-3 on page 9. With Tivoli