About tasks

A task is a set of instructions carried out by the Symantec Ghost Console. You create a task to perform any of the following actions on client computers:

Create an image file

Restore an image file

Apply configuration settings

Apply user data files and registry settings

Load AutoInstall packages

You can initiate a task from the Console server or a client computer.

To execute a Symantec Ghost Console task successfully, install the Symantec Ghost client software on each client computer.