Out of Band Management Solution makes provisioning AMT and vPro machines a breeze. We discovered an issue with new PCs having the wrong name because we use sysprep. After imaging a PC with Sysprep it will have a generic name.
You probably have 20-30 different programs installed on your PC. Do you know if all of them are up to date? Are you running the latest version of Java or Flash?
Need to get files other than the standard .exe files into your inventories. Perhaps the programs you need to inventory do not have .exe files such as ActiveX Controls.
Great view to have in your Asset database for reporting the locations your PCs are at. With this view you can easily add a Location column with address to any report you have.
It is nice to be able to see who the primary user is in a report. Since the Primary User table is based on a given month you have to add that as a parameter to every report you want to see Primary User on.
Depending on the way you have your SQL database security set up you may end up with stored procedures and other objects having an owner other than dbo. The typical case of this happening is when running the upgrade with an account that is not an SA on the SQL Server.
If unresolved, this naming issue can give you grief. Here's a way to fix it.
Have you ever needed to delete a partition inside of WinPE? Perhaps the machine had a Vista image on it previously and now your new image will not deploy to it. WinPE has a powerful utility built-in to manage partitions called DiskPart. It's a bit complicated at first but follow the steps below and you'll be creating and deleteing partitions in no time.
When new computers are placed into Altiris it may take up to 24 hours for the system to get all of its patches and inventories completed. This is usally due to collection update times and long configuration update times (6+ hours).
