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The release of the newest rollup pack for NS brings about a whole list of added updates.

Have you ever wondered though what was fixed with the current rollup you have installed now?

In case you were not aware, the newest rollup has been released. The R7 release was previously scheduled to be released a little later but was cut loose to resolve the critical security vulnerability with previous versions of the agent.

In case anyone else may have missed the release earlier this month, here are the details surrounding the security vulnerability for any Altiris Agent pre- 6.0.2389 build. Linky here...

This is another posting in regards to the articles I've done for Recovery Solution (RS) in the past based around the events which may occur that get written to the application event log.

I'm sure someone else has run into this as well... but with the release of Office 2007, MS no longer produced any type of Office Web Components. Office 2003 was the last released version to ship with an OWC install.

And as we all know, these are necessary to run reports and use a lot of the advanced controls like pivot tables etc.

I figured I would pass this along in case anyone was interested. Come the release of NS 7.0 Altiris will move away from reporting using the Office Web Components to software by this company... www.dundas.com. Not sure what will be included, but if the Gauge software is, custom dashboards look to be just around the corner.

I found this site a while back, way back in the day actually. I haven't heard much out of this camp in a while but figured I'd share the info with you guys in case anyone was interested.

Here is a little known site that Altiris rolled out without much fanfare or anything. When in fact it should have been more publicized.

This site combines all the features of the support round table for support requests, feature requests, licensing, hot fixes etc.

Remember that {choke}cute{cough} owl that the sales guys used to hand out on their visits to coerce, I mean, to propose your purchase of an Altiris product?

Well that guy used to be called Solution Sam, now he has gone into hibernation somewhere, or was killed when they cut down his giant redwood tree to print up more Altiris manuals.

Here is a pretty decent site that has some good submissions that the user community here might benefit from. It is updated, fairly regularly... I suppose, but hey, it's still a resource to add to your tool bag or tool belt, depending on how you swing your hammer.