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 If you are a network admin or security admin at your company, think you will find this really interesting, if not already known to you.

Microsoft Visio 2003 and 2007 versions have a connector for MBSA (Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer) which can be downloaded from here:

 I recently browsed the net on a forum site and noticed a google ad "Get SVS Free". Obviously knowing what SVS is, i clicked on the ad and was redirected to a nice site, containing SVS
packages, for multimedia software, games, office tools, development tools, etc.....

EyeDefender is a freeware rest reminder designed to prevent Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) resulting from working on a computer for hours on end. Once installed, EyeDefender sits in the system tray and displays the time left until the next break. When the time for a break arrives, the program does one of the following:

- Displays a predefined picture

Senario:

When Rdeploy starts, it checks the size of the drive and tries to calculate the time to image.  At Client "A" it would get stuck on the calculation and never start the image capture.

Important:

Never ever delete the Altiris database before doing a repair on the Notification server. The server hangs and never actually repairs the system but corrupts something, so it is not advised. Had to reload the entire Windows 2003 server as a result of registry being full of old Notification server entries not deleted.

After the uninstallation of Altiris Notification Server as per an Altiris KB article, my IIS service did not want to start.

Event viewer displayed the following error:

The World Wide Web Publishing Service service terminated with service-specific error 2147500034 (0x80004002).

I had to do this prior to creating a maintainence plan for a database on my Production box.

When I first tried to create the plan I was given a message that "Agent XPs" are not enabled and that I should run sp_reconfigure.

Run this statement then you can do get on with it: