Ghost Solution Suite 2.5 beta

Follow the directions in Symantec's GSS 2.5 beta announcement to sign up and participate.  Altiris posted new features of GSS2.5 on their Juice site:

• WinPE Pre-OS support in Console
• Hardware Independent Image Deployment
• Hot Image Creation via Console or Ghost32/64 for desktop operating systems
• Support for VMDK and V2i files
• Return code management in Command Execution tasks
• Client file retrieval from Console
• Configurable deployment task containing AI deployment, File Transfer and Command Execution
• Secure Decommission Task
• Volume Cloning
• Recovery Partition Tool (Stand alone Virtual Partition)
• Native stand alone Linux Tools (Ghost, Gdisk etc)
• 64bit Tools (Ghost, Gdisk etc)
• SUM Content IDE (to edit application setting definitions)

For those wondering why Altiris is mentioned: McAfee acquired Altiris in 2007.  The Ghost Dev and PM now report up the Altiris business unit so Altiris has product responsibility for Ghost Solution Suite.