CCBoot 2019

User Manual

Youngzsoft 2019

Update Image and Game

Update Game Disk on the Server
Some games can be played without required registry entries to be present in the client PC.
Hence its quite easy to update those games from the servers and those will be updated and
playable on the clients.
1. On CCBoot server, install new games or game patches for the games you want on the
game disk.
2. Once you are done updating, all you have to do is just reboot the clients.
3. After clients are rebooted they will get the new as well as updated games that you
installed on the server.
4. Some games require registry entries to be present on the client image for those kinds of
games.
a. Make backup of registry entries from the server as needed, select the required
registry and export it.
b. Copy the exported registry entries in a USB drive.
c. Plug in a superclient client PC and merge the registry entries.
d. Now, the games that require registry will work without any issue.
Note: Refer​ ​How To Back Up the Windows Registry​ to know how to backup windows registry
entries.
Update Boot Image/Game Disk using Super Client
Taking the client PC190 as an example, the operation steps are as follows:
Before updating, please backup image files. (For methods of backup image files, please refer to
"Backup Image")
1. On the main interface of the CCBoot, click the "Client Manager", and in the detailed pane on
the right side, right click a client “PC 190”and choose “Enable Super Client”.

Figure 1-9-1
2. In the pop-up "CCBoot Select Disk" dialogue box, tick the disks you want to update and then
click OK.
Note: Only check image disk if you want to make changes to the boot image. And tick game
disk as well if you want to install/update games from client PC.
 Figure 1-9-2
3. ​After you have selected the disks and clicked ok the client icon will change from green to Red
. This mean the client is now “SuperClient”.
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4. After you have selected the disks, boot the client and install/update it. After you are finished
shutdown the client.
5. On the server right click the client “PC190” and choose ”Disable Super Client” Option.
 Figure 1-9-4
6. It will pop open another dialog box prompting you to update the image.

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7. Choose “Yes” if you want to save the changes and “No” if you want to cancel the changes.If
you chose “Yes” then another prompt will open asking you to make “Recovery point”.
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8. If you choose “No’ then no recovery points will be created. But if you chose “Yes:” then you
will be prompted to enter recovery points description.

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9. Once you click “OK” the update will start and show you the window below.

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10. After update is complete it will show you a prompt withtext “OK!”, just click the OK button to
close it.
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How to Merge Image
Note: Before merge Image please disable superclient and unmount Image.

1) Backup the image you plan to merge. Please refer to "​Backup Image​". (Note: This step is
extremely important.)

2) On CCBoot Server main interface, click "Image Manager". In the right side details pane, right
click the image you want to recover and select "Disk Recovery" (Figure 1).

Figure 1

3) Click "Merge to Last" button to merge the image (Figure 1 2).

 Figure 2

4) Click the "Merge to Last" button once will only merge one restore point at a time.
5) If you have multiple restore points, you can click the "Merge All" button, then all restore points
will be merged to the main image (Figure 3).

Figure 3
Important: Once you merge all the recovery point, you will not be able to restore the image to
previous restore as the restore points will be deleted after merging.

When completed, you will find that the Windows7-xxx.vhd are removed from "Windows7.vhd",
and the Windows7.vhd is updated.

Note: Please do not merge image while client PCs are online, it may damage the image.

 
Recover Image
Some time after updating the image, you may encounter some problems with the image like
failed to boot, BSOD, etc. If you have previously created a "Recovery Point", then you can use
our Disk Recovery feature to restore to state before the issue appeared
On the main interface of the CCBoot, click the "Image Manager", and then in the detailed pane
on the right side, right-click the image which needs to recovery, and then click to select "Disk
Recovery".

Figure 1-1

In the pop-up "CCBoot Recovery" dialogue box, click the "Restore to last" button, it will restore
the image to working state that it was previously in.
Figure 1-2
Reduce Image File Size
When the image package is updated and merged for many times, the image files are becoming bigger

and bigger. So what to do when it gets big.

1. The first method is to upload the image again.

In new version of CCBoot from 20160405, uploading image is much easier. Now, you dont have to
tick the "Enable Upload image" in clients. Just open CCBoot client application and click upload, it's
just that easy, now.
Follow the steps below to upload a new image from your older big image.
1) Diskless boot one of the PC, Example "PC101".

2) In PC101, run the CCBootClient.exe program.

3) It will pop up the "CCBoot Client" dialogue box, enter the CCBoot server IP address in the "Server IP

Address" edition box, and enter a new image file name in the "Image File Name" edition box, and enter

the new image size. For now 100GB, and then click the "Upload Image" button (Figure 1).

Figure 1
4) It will ask you to enter password, just enter the password you set in the CCBoot Server UI.

5) Once the upload is complete the new image file is a smaller than your previous image file.

2. The second method is to use GHOST software, to copy over the image again.
The following operations are needed in the Win2008 operating system. The specific steps are
as follows:
Firstly you need to take the "Merge Image" operation for the image which needs slimming .For
details, please refer to "How to Merge Image".
Assume the name of the image file which needs slimming as XP.VHD
Copy the XP.VHD, named OLD.VHD.
Open the "Server Manager" window, expand the "Storage" node, right-click the "Disk Manager",
click the "Attach VHD".

Figure 1-5
In the pop-up "Attach Virtual Hard Disk" dialogue box, click the "Browse" button, select the
OLD.VHD file.

Figure 1-6
Open the "Server Manager" window, expand the "Storage" node, right-click the "Disk Manager",
and click to select the "Create VHD".

Figure 1-7
In the pop-up" Create and Attach Virtual Hard Disk" dialogue box, create a virtual disk which has
the same size of the original image disk, named NEW.VHD; select "Dynamically expanding" and
click the button, and then click "OK" button.

Figure 1-8
Right-click the "NEW.VHD" and then click the "Initialize Disk" to activate the disk.
 Figure 1-9
In the disk manager, there are two disks with blue icons. The first disk is OLD.VHD, and the
second disk is NEW.VHD.
 Figure 1-10
Run the GHOST32.EXE program.
Local>Disk>To Disk, make the OLD.VHD corresponding to the disk copy to the NEW.VHD
corresponding to the disk. After the copy is completed, does not restart the machine, Please
select the "Continue", and the GHOST program withdraw from the normal procedures.
 Figure 1-11
In the "Server Manager" window, expand the "Storage" node, click the "Disk Manager", and then
right-click the NEW.VHD, select the "Mark Partition as Active", to mark NEW.VHD as the active
partition.
 Figure 1-12
Right-click the NEW.VHD disk, select the "Separation of VHD."
 Figure 1-13
In the pop-up "Detach Virtual Hard Disk" dialogue box, do not select the "Delete the virtual hard
disk file after removing the disk", then click "OK" button.

Figure 1-14
Thus, NEW.VHD is a slimmed-down VHD file.
ISCSI Initiator Installation
If you system is Windows 2003, then you need to install the iSCSI program.
If you system is Windows 2008 or Windows 7, then you do not need to install the iSCSI
program, because the system has iSCSI program.
1. Install iSCSI Initiator in Win2003
Download the installation package of the iSCSI Initiator
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=18986
Double-click the "iSCSI" setup, it will pop up the "installation wizard" dialogue box, and then
click "Next "button.

Figure 1-1
In the pop-up "Select Installation Folder" dialogue box, select the installation directory, and then
select the "Everyone" button, then click "Next" button.
 Figure 1-2
In the pop-up "License Agreement" dialogue box, select the "I Agree" and click the button and
then click "Next" button.
 Figure 1-3
In the pop-up "Microsoft iSCSI Installation Program" dialogue box, select the "Install Complete
iSCSI Initiator" and click the button, click "OK" button.
 Figure 1-4
In the pop-up "End User License Agreement" dialogue box, click the "Agree" button.
 Figure 1-5
After the successful installation, click "OK" button.

Figure 1-6

2. Activate iSCSI in Win2008 and Win 7

Click "Start" button, and then in the "Run" edition box, enter "iSCSI", then click "iSCSI Initiator",
run "iSCSI".
 Figure 1-7
In the pop-up "Microsoft iSCSI" dialogue box, click the "Yes" button.
It will pop up "iSCSI Initiator Properties" dialogue box.
Figure 1-8
Disconnect the iSCSI Initiator
The steps of disconnecting the iSCSI Initiator are as follows:
First close all application programs accessing the iSCSI virtual disk.
Run iSCSI Initiator.
In the pop-up "iSCSI Initiator Properties" dialogue box, click the "Disconnect" button to
disconnect the iSCSI.
Figure 1-1
Backup Image
As it often happen when we update the image something goes wrong and our image is broken.

If it was in superclient, we can just cancel the update. But what happens if main image gets corrupt.

Here, you will learn how to make backup of you image and keep it safe in case your primary image

breaks. (Better sure than sorry)

Lets make backup of your image using restore function in the Disk Recovery dialog box..

As an example, we are making backup of image "E:\Windows7.vhd" to another drive "Backup (G:)".

1) On the main interface of the CCBoot, click the "Client Manager", and then in the detailed pane on the

right side, right-click the image, and click to select the "Disk Recovery" (Figure 1).

Figure 1

2) In the pop-up "CCBoot Recovery" dialogue box, you can see the directory of the images as well as any

recovery points it has. Simply click "Export" button (Figure 2)

 Figure 2

3) It will open “Save As” dialog box, browse to the location you want to export the image and click “Save”

button (Figure 3).

 Figure 3

4) Now, the image export will start at the location of you choosing (Figure 4)

Note: The export function exports the main image as well along with the recovery points and creates a

“.xml” file in the exported folder/disk.

 Figure 4

5) Once the export is complete a dialog box opens, simply click “OK” to close it.

6) Now, go to the export folder/disk and make a copy of the files in it (Figure 5).
 Figure 5

Note: As seen above, Windows7.vhd is the main image and the Windows7.001.vhd is recovery point and

the Windows7.vhd.xml file has information regarding the recovery point.

Note: Do Not delete the Windows7.vhd.xml file as it is required import the image back to the CCBoot.

Note: ​If you dont have any recovery point for the image then simply, make a copy of your primary image

(Eg. Windows7.vhd) to somewhere save.

You can use this image when you have issue with client booting. It is recommended to make backup of

you booting image before you want to make major changes

Change in Super Client Work Process
In CCBoot previous versions, when using super client to update image or game, after

clicking the "Enable Super Client" and selecting image or game disk, then it will pop up

whether to create recovery point dialog box.

In new versions of CCBoot, the work process of super client has changed. After you

click the "Enable Super Client" and select image or game disk. It will not ask you,

whether to create recovery point or not, and the image would not be saved at this

moment. The image is saved only after you have finished making changes/updates, and

clicked the "Disable Super Client" button.

When you click "Disable Super Client", it will ask you, whether you want to update

image. If you click "Yes", then it will ask you if you want to make recovery image for the

changes to the image or not.

If you click "Yes" then it will ask you to enter the recovery points in detail. Click "OK",

and the image will start its update process and create a recovery point, just in case you

want to undo the changes. But, if you click "No", the changes will be saved directly to

the image and there will not be any recovery point created.

This change of super client work process, let you choose if you want to save the

changes or not after you have finished making changes. If you have made a mistake

during updating image or game, you can simply cancel the updates when disable super

client. This will prevent any troubles to your current image.

Besides, during the process of updating by super client, there won't have safe mode

menu when Windows 7 (client) boots. So it allows you to update image or game at any

time, even when the clients are online.

Note: When you have placed the client in super client mode - the client cache will be

disabled and will not be enabled until you have disabled super client and saved the

image and booted the client in normal mode.

Compact Virtual Disk File

If you want to compact a virtual disk file, here is a good way. The steps are as follows.

English:
1) Click the "Start" button, and enter "cmd" in the "Run" edit box, press the "Enter" button.
2) In the pop up "Command Line" window, enter "diskpart", then press the "Enter" button.
3) Select vdisk file="d:\YeniWin7Sp1UltimateUcgenNet.vhd"
4) Attach vdisk readonly.
5) Compact vdisk.
6) Detach vdisk.
Now you can see that you have a smaller file.

Turkish:
Server üzerinden sanal diskleri sisteme bağlayarak sıkıştırma yapabilirsiniz.
Öncelikle komut satırını açıyoruz
Başlat -> Tüm Programlar -> Donatılar -> Komut İstemi (Kısa yoldan Win Tuşu + R cmd yaz
enter)
Komut isteminde Diskpart yazıp enter a basıyoruz
Disk yönetiminin komut istemi hali açılacak. Şimdi sanal diskimizi sisteme tanıtalım select vdisk
file="d:\YeniWin7Sp1UltimateUcgenNet.vhd"
Imaj dosyamızı sisteme salt okunur modda ekleyelim attach vdisk readonly
Son olarak sıkıştırma komutunu verelim compact vdisk
Sistem sanal diski sıkıştırdıktan sonra diskimizi sistemden ayırabiliriz detach vdisk
Bu arada örnek olarak sıkıştırmadan önce 22,0 GB Sıkıştırmadan sonra : 14,9 GB (Dikkate
değer bi fark)

Thanks for Selçuk Dere providing this solution.

Update Boot Image/Game Disk using Super Client

Important: Before you enable super client for any computer, please make sure that you have
enough space free in the "Image Disk". To be safe, have at least 10-20 GB free.

Important 2: When you disable super client but your changes are not saving, then you need to
unmount any virtual harddisk attached on the server.

The issue is caused when you accidentally mounted the image file on server but did not
unmount it from the disk management.

Important 3: ​Some games require graphics drivers to be installed before you are able to run the
game installer. So make sure the graphics drivers are installed first

Taking the client PC190 as an example, the operation steps are as follows:

Before updating, please backup image files. (For methods of backup image files, please refer to
"Backup Image")

Watch the video : ​How to Update image and games in CCBoot

Note: ​When you have placed the client in super client mode - the client cache will be disabled
and will not be enabled until you have disabled super client and saved the image and booted
the client in normal mode.

1. On the main interface of the CCBoot, click the "Client Manager", and in the detailed pane on
the right side, right click a client “PC 190”and choose “Enable Super Client”.
  

Figure 1-1

2. In the pop-up "CCBoot Select Disk" dialogue box, tick the disks you want to update and then
click OK.

Note: Only check image disk if you want to make changes to the boot image. And tick game
disk as well if you want to install/update games from client PC.
  

Figure 1-2

3. After you have selected the disks and clicked ok the client icon will change from green to Red
. This mean the client is not “SuperClient”.
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4. After you have selected the disks, boot the client and install/update it. After you are finished
shutdown the client.

5. On the server right click the client “PC190” and choose ”Disable Super Client” Option.
 Figure 1-4

6. It will pop open another dialog box prompting you to update the image.

Figure 1-5
7. Choose “Yes” if you want to save the changes and “No” if you want to cancel the changes.If
you chose “Yes” then another prompt will open asking you to make “Recovery point”.

Figure 1-6

8. If you choose “No’ then no recovery points will be created. But if you chose “Yes:” then you
will be prompted to enter recovery points description.

Figure 1-7

9. Once you click “OK” the update will start and show you the window below.
 Figure 1-8

10. After update is complete it will show you a prompt with text “OK!”, just click the OK button to
close it.

Figure 1-9

Note:

Enabling always the Super Client on Game Disk in the client PCs is not recommended, this is
prone to affect with the virus. Since some of the customers are inserting a USB flash drive on
the client PC, hence you have to avoid it.

But if you still wanted to Super Client the Game Disk always,

We recommend preparing separate PC just for the game update purposes and then follow this
method ​CCBoot Used As Virtual Disk Game Server

Note: ​If the game icons are not showing up properly then please re configure the server and re
set the SSD cache once to make the icons.

Note: ​If you have placed any client PC in superclient, then other clients may experience slow
loading of games as well as boot time increased. To fix it, finish superclient and disabled it as
soon.
Note: Please note that when you have put game disk in superclient mode, it will be locked in
server to prevent the content from being changed. Which may lead to game file getting
corrupted. Once you are done with superclient and have disabled it, the game disk will be
accessible on server once again.

Update image using Keep Writeback function 

CCBoot "Keep Write-Back" is a method of keeping data (drivers, application installation) even
after reboot and if you want to make the change you have made permanent then you can use
“Save to Image” function to save it to the image. So all client PCs get the changes.
As an example we will take PC01, the operation steps are as follows:
1.) Before updating please back up the Image file. (For methods of back up image, please
refer to "​Back up Image​".
2.) On the CCBoot main interface, click “Client Manager”, Right click “PC01” and then click
“Keep Write-back” (Figure 1).
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3.) In the pop-up “Do you want to delete write-back?” dialog box, click the “Yes” button to
delete the write-back data automatically (Figure 2).

Figure 2

4.) Diskless boot PC01, and make your changes or updates (such as driver updates or
program installation). Once, you are done, shutdown the client (PC01).
5.) On CCBoot "Client Manager" right-click the PC01 and then click “Save to Image” (Figure
3).

Figure 3

6.) It will open a pop-up “Do you want to save to image?” dialog box, Press “Yes” button
(Figure 4).

Figure 4
7.) After another pop-up “Do you want to save to image [E:\SIWIN7X64_20151012.VHD]?”
dialog box will open, Press “Yes” button to confirm image save (Figure 5)

Figure 5

8.) After clicking the “Yes” button another pop-up “Do you want to create a restore point?
dialog box will open, click the “Yes” button to continue (Figure 6)

Figure 6

Note: if you choose "No" then CCBoot will not create any recovery point and directly update the
image or the last recovery point file.
Notes: If you choose "Yes" then CCBoot will create a recovery point for the image. So your
image disk will one more file with name .xxx.vhd at the end (.001.vhd, .002.vhd). If there are
many recovery points, then its recommended that you merge them so you have just 1 main
image. please refer to "​Merge Image​".
9.) Now, in the pop-up "CCBoot Recovery Properties" dialogue box, enter "Description" to
describe the changes made to the image, and then click "OK" button. CCBoot will now save the
image while creating a recovery point for it (Figure 7)
 Figure 7

10.) Now, let's disable "Keep Write-back", to do that right-click “PC01” in the CCBoot "Client
Manager" and then click the “Keep Write-back” to uncheck it (Figure 8).

Figure 8
Use Superclient from Client

Important​: Before you enable super client for any computer, please make sure that you have
enough space free in the "Image Disk". To be safe, have atleast 10-20 GB free.
Since version 20160405 we have added options to enable/disable from CCBoot Client
application to make it easy to update images or games from client and not have to visit server
every time.

Note​: If the client fails to boot when you set the client superclient mode, then change the pxe
option for client from gpxe.pxe to gpxex.pxe and then boot. Client will boot normally in
superclient mode.

Note​: When you have placed the client in super client mode - the client cache will be disabled
and will not be enabled until you have disabled super client and saved the image and booted
the client in normal mode.

Here is how you do it.

1. Open “CCBoot Client” application on the client PC and click the “Enable Super Client”
button (as shown in Figure 1).

 
 Figure 1 

2. It will pop up “Super Client Type” dialog box, choose “image” to update image and click
“OK”. ” (as seen on Figure 2)

Figure 2

Note: There you can choose between three type “image”, “Disk”, and “Image + Disk”.
3. Another pop up will open asking you to enter “Password”, password for this is the “Admin
Password” set in the General Options, enter the password and click “OK” to continue (Figure 3).
 Figure 3

4. After that it will ask you to restart the client PC to enable super client, click “OK” to reboot
you client PC (Figure 4).

Figure 4

5. Now, once the client has booted, make you changes, add programs, or update the
Windows and once done, Open the “CCBoot Client” application and click “Disable Super Client”
option (see Figure 5).
 Figure 5

6. A popup will open asking you to enter “Password”, enter the password and click
“OK”(Figure 6).
 Figure 6

7. Now, a pop up will open and ask you if you want to update the image or not. Click “Yes”
to save the changes made to the image and “No” to cancel saving (Figure 7).
 Figure 7

8. If you clicked “Yes” on previous step, then a pop up will open to ask you, if you want to
create a restore point for the image. Choose “Yes” to make a restore point or “No” to save to the
image directly, without making any recovery points(Figure 8)
  

Figure 8

9. After clicking “Yes” a final prompt will ask you to shut down the client PC to save the
image and disable super client. Click “Yes” to shut down the client (Figure 9).
 Figure 9

Install driver for client in superclient mode 

When you add new client or have clients that have different driver than the one you used to
create the image, then you have to install the driver for it. You need to install drivers in
superclient mode. Here is how you do it.
1. Right click the client you want to install driver for, then choose "Enable Superclient" (Figure
1).
 Figure 1

2. Once "CCBoot Select Disk" windows, check the "Image" check box in the windows and click
"OK" button (Figure 2).

Figure 2
3. Now, turn on the client and boot from lan (Figure 3).

Figure 3

4. You will see in "Device Manager" that the client's graphics and few other drivers need to be
installed (Figure 4).
 Figure 4

5. Install driver using installer or use ​Drive The Life tool​.

6. After all the drivers are installed, the "Device Manager" will look like this (Figure 5).
 Figure 5

Note: You can install/update all drivers but do not update LAN/Ethernet drivers, as updating it
will break the diskless boot.
7. Now, turn off the client and then "Disable Superclient" (Figure 6)
 Figure 6

8. Choose to save the image and create recovery point, just in case you want to go back to
driverless image (Figure 7).

Figure 7

9. Once done, now your clients will have the drivers and work like should.