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Deploying Carbonite via Active Directory

  • This article is for Windows only

Summary:

This article details Carbonite's recommendations for deploying Carbonite through your Active Directory. We will not be listing the steps for deploying the software as each network sets their group policies and permissions differently.

If these instructions feel too difficult or if you aren't sure if you have access to deploy software on your network, please contact your network administrator for assistance or you may want to invite users to your Carbonite account and have them manually install Carbonite on their systems.

Solution:

Prerequisites

  • Ensure you have the MSI file downloaded. If you haven't already, please use the deployment guide to download the Carbonite Installer.
  • Ensure you have the COMPANYID for your account readily available.
  • Ensure you have reviewed or created any additional Backup Policies that you wish to deploy to your end users.
  • Ensure that all computers you wish to deploy Carbonite to are all within the domain.

Configuration Recommendations

We recommend that you enable the following group policies and settings when deploying Carbonite through Active Directory:

  • Use a script to deploy and install the software to your environment
  • If you are deploying different policies to multiple groups, you may want to set up multiple Group Policy Objects to make it easier for you control the deployment
  • When deploying to more than 25 computers on the same local network, configure backup throttling for the initial backup as a command line argument during the install.
  • Enable at least the following Group Policies:
    • Computer Configuration; Policies; Administrative Templates; System; Scripts; Run Logon scripts synchronously
    • Computer Configuration; Policies; Administrative Templates; System; Scripts; Specify maximum wait time for Group Policy Scripts
    • Computer Configuration; Policies; Administrative Templates; System; Logon; Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon
    • Computer Configuration; Policies; Administrative Templates; System; Group Policy; Configure Group Policy slow link detection

Installation Script and Variables

You can use the following piece of script in conjunction with your own settings in order to deploy Carbonite to your network. Please use the explanation after to adjust your code accordingly:

MSIexec /i [LOCATION-OF-MSI-FILE] COMPANYID=[YOUR COMPANY ID FROM ACCOUNT] POLICY="[NAME OF POLICY YOU ARE DEPLOYING]" THROTTLE_INITIAL_BACKUP=[0/1] THROTTLE_KBPS=[###] /quiet

MSI Parameters Explanation

  • COMPANYID - This is a required parameter for the code. This is a unique code found in your Carbonite Safe Pro account dashboard that will link the installed Carbonite software to your account.
  • POLICY - If you have multiple policies, you can type the name of the policy within the quotation marks and the software will use that backup policy for the installation and backup. The policy can always be changed after Carbonite is installed through your Carbonite Safe Pro account. If no policy is stated it will default to the Carbonite Default policy.
  • THROTTLE_INITIAL_BACKUP=0 - Placing this optional parameter in the script will make it so that your backups are throttled at all times.
  • THROTTLE_INITIAL_BACKUP=1 - Placing this optional parameter in the script will make it so that your backups are throttled for only the initial backup. After the initial backup completes, the backup speed will no longer be throttled down.
  • THROTTLE_KBPS - This optional parameter should be used in conjunction with the THROTTLE_INITIAL_BACKUP options listed above. It will set the maximum backup speed in kilobytes per second for your backup.

Once you have successfully deployed Carbonite to your network, all of the computers will be listed within your account dashboard with all their associated policies.

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