Today at 5 PM a webinar about Desktop Virtualization is scheduled on http://www.desktopvirtualizationhour.com
apparantly a lot of rumors exist about the content of this event, will Microsoft make an important announcement? maybe news on the Calista front? or updated licensing information for VECD?
who knows?
I’d say, check out the webcast!
>all info is published in the following press-release : http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2010/mar10/03-18DesktopVirtPR.mspx
As this is my first post on The D-spot and so far no posts about Altiris exist, I’d thought to change that. Let’s start with the most usefull links concerning Altiris software.
Altiris Knowledge Base: http://kb.altiris.com
Contains KB’s, Glossary, Release notes, Compatibilitylists, Planning Guides etc.
Altiris FTP: ftp.altiris.com
Username: epmftp Password: Altiris123
Symantec Connect: http://www.symantec.com/connect/endpoint-management-virtualization
Best source for articles, custom Altiris tools & Altiris Forums
Altirigos Community-site: http://www.altirigos.com
Userforum and Altiris repository that contains old software releases.
Altiris Manuals: http://www.altiris.com/Support/Documentation.aspx
For those who like to join the beta-program: http://betanew.altiris.com
Anyone using SCCM and Forefront Client Security? If so, then you probably have an auto-approve rule in WSUS for your definition files and therefore have these files automatically downloaded to your server. Seen the amount of definition files that are released, you could notice that these files begin to consume a significant amount of disk space and, as in my case, could run into disk space problems if not adequately monitored. Therefore I needed to get these files cleaned up to free up some disk space.
Cleaning up these definition files and freeing up disk space can be done trough the ‘Cleanup Wizard’ in your WSUS console. Normally you would manage your updates trough the SCCM console but the difference is that, by creating this auto-approve rule for definition files, these ‘updates’ are managed by your underlying WSUS infrastructure and not your SCCM infrastructure which you would use for other updates (Windows updates, etc.)
The first time I ran the Cleanup Wizard, this would appear to go in a state of not responding and finally freeze up. These was because it was the first time I ran the wizard and has selected all different tasks…
It is better to perform these tasks individually and in certain order, the first time you run the cleanup wizard. I performed them in the following order:
- I first selected the two bottom options where you decline certain updates
- Then the first option, deleting unused updates and update revisions
- To end with the third option where unnneeded updates are deleted
If like me, you want to schedule this cleanup to run every month or so, you can do this by using the following tool: http://wsus.codeplex.com/releases/view/17612. The tool provides you with an executable, help file and an sql file. Considering the arguments you pass in your command, you can perform the several cleanup tasks as you find in the cleanup wizard of WSUS and perform a database maintenance. All arguments and command line option can be found in the help file, I found it very useful.
Grtz,
Steve.
When the SQL Server is on the same machine as the App-V Management Server (formerly known as the VAS Server), the App-V Management Server Service doesn’t start after a reboot.
Solve this by adding the MSSQLSERVER as dependency to App-V service in the registry. (Use MSSQL$SQLEXPRESS when using SQL Server Express edition). Name the new string DependOnService and value MSSQLSERVER or MSSQL$SQLEXPRESS in the hive HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\AppVirtServer:
To finalize, add a DWORD named DelayedAutostart with value 1 in the same hive:
Reboot the server, the Application Virtualization Management Server service should start (with a slight delay).
