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Drivers Driving you Crazy? Here's a Tale to Ease the Torment
September 21st, 2007 | 0 votes

At our company we manage seven different computer models. They're all HP, but not all of them have the same chipset.

Here's a problem we ran into and, of course, how we solved it.

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SQL/Altiris Connections and Teaming NICs
September 18th, 2007 | 0 votes

A couple of weeks ago we noticed that we were having a problem with our Deployment Server losing its connection to the SQL server every couple of hours. We were at a loss as to what was going on.

The only information we could see was in the event viewer on our Altiris server which showed us exactly what time we would lose the connection.

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Wake on LAN for Pocket PC
July 31st, 2007 | 0 votes

Here's a nice Wake on LAN (WOL) utility that's designed specifically for a Windows Pocket PC. A lot of our building principles have PDAs and use them on the wireless network.

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Wake on LAN (WOL) Utility
July 31st, 2007 | 0 votes

We just implemented the EZ EnergyStar GPO into our Active Directory and set all computers to go into standby mode after 50 minutes. We noticed that when implemented this GPO, Altiris DS would not wake them up.

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Teaming Dual NICs
July 30th, 2007 | 0 votes

Just an FYI for others out there. We have our Altiris Deployment Server running on an HP DL380, and I wanted to run two 1 Gig NICs to the server and team them. After I teamed the NICs together, I changed the network settings to disable the TCP Checksum Offload. With these network settings, we were only able to deploy an image to about 10 to 15 computers at a time without problems.

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Deploying the Daylight Saving Patch
June 29th, 2007 | 0 votes

Here is the step-by-step method I used to deploy the Microsft DST patch. It worked really well (and we continue to use this as a model for current and future deployments).

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