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Tuesday at Altiris : Now a Part of Symantec's ManageFusion '07 was the official start of the conference. The keynote opened with superstar conference host and V.P. Steve Morton doing his very entertaining...
I am in Florida for this fall's ManageFusion in at the Universal Studios site in Orlando, FL. I'm excited to get more information about the relentlessly imminent release of version 7 of the Altiris...
Jerry Honeycutt, the man who wrote the book about BDD: Microsoft Windows Desktop Deployment Resource Kit and probably knows as much as anyone about Microsoft deployment technologies, has put together a...
Part II - Randomize Weekly and Monthly Inventories In Part I we randomized daily inventories so they ran randomly within a 4 hour window rather than all at once to prevent overloading the Notification...
I needed to find all the systems with a certain piece of software installed no matter the version. I wanted the data from Software Inventory rather than Add?Remove Programs to make sure the product was...
I received an IM from a coworker asking why certain new machines had not shown up in Altiris yet If a machine does not make it to Altiris and an alarm come in on it, there is no (easy) way to find the...
The Friday before ManageFusion '07, Altiris officially became a wholly-owned unit of Symantec . This acquisition definitely concerned me as an Altiris user, so I was eager to discover what was in store...
I just returned from ManageFusion '07 in Las Vegas and I continue to be impressed by the way Altiris really caters to their customers. They really seem to listen and work hard to understand the needs of...
As Google keeps rolling out apps folks deem "Microsoft Killers" people start thinking they can run a business with these things. Well, that's just crazy talk! Jeremy Wright has a couple well thought out...
Jobby is a beta Job Search site written with Ajax goodness and looks very interesting. You upload your resume, then add search tags to your profile. Employers log in, search the tags they are looking for...
Eileen Brown posted information about the mysterious SMS 2003 R2 ! From her blog are links to the MS Press Release and an eWeek article about it. This looks very cool!
Russ Slaten has posted a VBScript version of MP Spy . This let's you export the policies to a log file for later review!
Here are some products you should buy. After all, it's Christmas! The Serenity DVD goes on sale Tuesday, December 20th. What better way to celebrate the shortest day of the year than in space? Rod...
Along with their updated FLEXnet Admin Studio Edition, Macrovision has released great white paper entitled Mastering Software Management: Application Packaging and the Microsoft BDD .(requires registration...
Okay, I'll admit I've not been following Macrovision real closely, but when did the FLEXnet get added to the name of AdminStudio? From the MS Download page: Overview FLEXnet AdminStudio SMS Edition is...
If you can then thank a teacher! But, if you can read this, it is even more important to thank Rod Trent for working tirelessly to get this site back up, and Ron Crumbaker for jumping in and putting the...
FixMyXP.com has posted 99 Useful Run Commands. They are up to 113 as of this writing with many of the shortcuts to MMC's and Control Panel Applets. Very handy list! If they had an RSS feed, I'd subscribe...
Work a lot with folks in a different Time Zone? John Howard shows how simple it is to show two Time Zones with Outlook.
Hey, Garth, I sure am studying for the 70-290 "Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment" . Are you looking to start a study group on the forums at MyITforum ?
An article at c|Net actually makes some good points about browser "safety." Art Manion points out proper precautions one should use when using the Internet with any browser. If you want to see what is...
MyITforum community member Lane Kochert is participating in the South Carolina Tour de Cure June 4th and 5th. She also promises to do the extra 25 miles to do a full century the first day if she meets...
I do have some audio saved that I made the first day of MMS...I just need time to edit it down from incoherent rambling to tight relevant commentary. Look for it soon!
Got up yesterday, Sunday, and loaded the car for the drive to the airport. Stopped at Starbucks for some coffee, then hit the road. Flight left on time, it was sunny and turbulance free the whole way,...
Rod Trent wants to know who is Blogging MMS ? I know Ron Crumbaker will and so will Jonathan Hardwick . Did I miss anybody? I'll be blogging all I can! Plus I am wandering into the world of Podacasting...
I recorded upgrading from a base Windows Server 2003 Gold installation to Service Pack 1. I also showcased some GarageBand.com bands from Las Vegas. Blogcast Notes: Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 Download...
My first attempts at blogcasting are available at Brian Tucker's smsblogcasts.com. The first one shows how to change the SA password on a SQL Database. Ths is nice to know if you inherit the SMS site and...
This category will be used to document my hit and misses while rolling out SMS 2003 and moving toward a single Systems Management System
Now that I think back on it, Microsoft really does seem to listen to their customers and strives to meet not only needs, but expectations and dreams, as well. Most recently this has been demonstrated by...
I had forgotten from my Altiris training that their licenses are not cumulative. So, when I bought 300 more licenses and installed them, imagine my chagrin when my license count went from 3200 to 300!...
Yep, I'm setting up house at MyItForum as a blogger. My name is Reed Porter and I have been in Systems Management since the days of “sneaker net.” The posts I place here will normally have...