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Why not bike to work

OK, so I finally admit that riding a bike is cheaper transportation than driving a car. If you coincidently live far enough away from work, you can definitely lose weight as well. Since I live 25 miles from work, a ride on a bicycle three days a week, well, you do the math. This hasContinue reading “Why not bike to work”

Branding the Altiris Software Portal with your Company Logo

I ran across this scenario this week and thought you might be interested in an easy way to brand the software portal with your corporate logo. I renamed the disks.gif file in the %programfiles%\altiris\software delivery subdirectory to disks.gif_bak. I then modified our corporate logo to be the same size as the original gif file makingContinue reading “Branding the Altiris Software Portal with your Company Logo”

How to use PC Transplant to make Userprofile Settings in Deployment Server

This topic has always been a sore subject with customers and Altiris when it comes to using Deployment Server. The feature is available when using Notification Server to run something as the logged in user in order to make settings withing the users profile. With Deployment Server, you did not have this option. The optionsContinue reading “How to use PC Transplant to make Userprofile Settings in Deployment Server”

How to create scripts to install printers on WinXP

Our company just ran into this issue. We are undergoing a transition of employees from one section of the building to another section of the building. One of the challenges that we faced is getting the printers installed on the employees new locations. We used a combination of Altiris Software Delivery Solution and the SoftwareContinue reading “How to create scripts to install printers on WinXP”

HP Systems Insight Manager plugin

For those of you that have HP hardware in house, you probably/maybe have your Systems Insight Manager software installed somewhere to monitor your HP devices. Well, Altiris has a connector that you can install to allow you to view the data collected by the SIM tool within the Altiris Notification Server Console. You can getContinue reading “HP Systems Insight Manager plugin”