The D-Spot (The Deployment Spot) » Altiris http://www.the-d-spot.org/wordpress Tickle your Deployment needs. Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:43:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Desktop optimisation windows 7 and office 2010 – notes from the field http://www.the-d-spot.org/wordpress/2011/10/22/desktop-optimisation-windows-7-and-office-2010-notes-from-the-field/ http://www.the-d-spot.org/wordpress/2011/10/22/desktop-optimisation-windows-7-and-office-2010-notes-from-the-field/#comments Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:48:43 +0000 verteto http://www.the-d-spot.org/wordpress/?p=1299 Recently we hosted an event about “Desktop optimisation – efficient windows 7 and office 2010 deployment – notes from the field”. This seminar not only listed many of the new features and functionality that are included in Windows 7 and Office 2010 but also answered many deployment questions including some notes from the field.

The result can be found here:

http://seminar.the-d-spot.org/Desktop optimisation – notes from the field – 17102011.pdf

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The beta process has been moved to Symantec Connect, where we can take advantage of the existing community.  As part of your beta experience, you may submit feedback in the form of articles, forum postings, and comments.  At any time, you may submit feedback directly to altrisbeta@symantec.com. 

Full post @  http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/altiris-beta-program-welcome-message

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We’ve upgraded the server to DS 6.9 SP3 two weeks ago. In the release notes (known issues), I’ve found an Altiris article that discusses our problem and the workaround was disabling the Agent autoupgrade feature and downgrading the Aclient Agent to 6.9 SP2 version on Win2000 servers. Luckily for me, Altiris posted a permanent solution this afternoon ;)

Article #51997
https://kb.altiris.com/article.asp?article=51997&p=1

]]> http://www.the-d-spot.org/wordpress/2010/04/12/memory-leak-with-altiris-aclient-running-on-windows-2000/feed/ 0 Slow Deployment console with Security enabled. http://www.the-d-spot.org/wordpress/2010/04/06/slow-deployment-console-with-security-enabled/ http://www.the-d-spot.org/wordpress/2010/04/06/slow-deployment-console-with-security-enabled/#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:49:44 +0000 Robin Kortleven http://www.the-d-spot.org/wordpress/?p=412 When you define Security groups in DS 6.9 SP3 in combination with the option “Display only computers and jobs the user has rights to manage”, users may experience a very very slow interface. By default, any user who can access the DS console, can see all jobs/computers. 

There’s a noticable difference in performance when you need to browse jobs via the ‘select a job’ option because here Altiris evaluates all jobs against the user’s permissions.

I didn’t experience this behaviour as a DS Admin. This would be a good option if it didn’t slow down the console so much!

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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

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