Yes, they are vendor tools, and can help you. Both are a free plugin on Notification Server and will allow you to manage those specific types of vendor hardware. Both allow BIOS configuration changes as well as BIOS update options on a mass scale. Both require a license, but the license is free. HP ClientContinue reading “Dell/HP Client Manager”
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The Oddities of WinPE
I can’t stress enough how important it is when using new technology in a corporate environment. An example that I want to pass along involves the use of WinPE (Microsoft Windows PE operating system) with Altiris Deployment Server. I have learned the hard way that it is better to research until you die, before implementationContinue reading “The Oddities of WinPE”
Setting Deployment Server Security
For those of you out there that manage the same Altiris Deployment Servers (DS) that you use, disregard this. For those of you out there that have someone else manage your physical servers, this may be of interest to you when it comes to using the Role and Scope security options in DS. There isContinue reading “Setting Deployment Server Security”
Altiris Infrastructure Monitoring
I brought this topic up the other day at the Altiris Midwest User Group meeting at TAP Pharmaceuticals but wanted to mention it again as I hope you will use the free tools that Altiris provides to help with the day-to-day administration of Altiris products. Altiris provides a pretty decent server monitoring product, but itContinue reading “Altiris Infrastructure Monitoring”
File Permissions and Attributes
I am sure that there are some of you out there that already know about this, but I find it is important enough to mention for those of you that don’t know. I ran into a rather peculiar situation the other day. I needed to change the folder attributes on a remote computer and alsoContinue reading “File Permissions and Attributes”
