Tenacious Geo's blog

 This is a pretty fascinating post I read on Mark Russinovich's blog about SID duplication. Check it out if you haven't already.

Hello all,

 I ran across this funny site, http://hey-it.com/, that is all about trying to convince IT shops to get rid of IE6. That's great and all, because we would definitely love to. But, we have many applications that the vendor does not support a newer IE version, let alone another browser.

Is anybody else in this position where they can't get rid of IE6 yet?

This would not be useful to people who disable the Administrator account, but here's one way we came up with to change the Administrator account password on computers on a regular basis. Admittedly it's not the coolest or most secure method, but it's one method. :)

This little vbscript for sending an smtp message is useful to put as the last task of a Altiris Deployment Server job so that it emails the tech after the job has completed successfully.

The following DS variables are used:
%JOBUSER% -- the person who ran the job in Deployment Console
%NAME% -- the name of the computer in Deployment Console

Just a quick, useful tweak. This info is available on many places on the web, but I thought I'd throw it on Connect too for anyone who could benefit from it.

The My Computer icon, by default, looks like this:

A week ago I submitted a Tech Tip about Windows reboot issues after the SVS agent was installed on computers with Symantec AntiVirus and how we were able to disable SVS after the install to make the reboot issues go away.

After we deployed the SVS Agent to all of our computers, there were a handful of computers that got stuck in a reboot loop. Ouch! We knew the issue started after the SVS Agent was installed, so we wanted to uninstall it. However, we could only get into Windows Safe Mode and were unable to uninstall from there.