There is a tsunami brewing in Redmond this year that is bound to disrupt every systems management company in the market today. The tsunami began several years ago when Microsoft decided a 5 year OS release cycle was not feeding the profit machines fast enough and that two year cycles would be necessary to keep the coffers hopping.
Symantec has released Service Pack 2 (Build 6.0.1505) for Altiris Task Server and simliar to the previous release, this is a complete build of the solution and not an upgrade. The release notes can be found here.
The best way to install the Altiris AClient as part of the base imaging task, is to have the Deployment Server copy the most recent version of the AClient to the local drive, followed by a call from the Windows XP Cmdlines.txt file to run the in
The Altiris Notification Server 6.x platform was coded using Microsoft's .NET platform and heavily relies upon ASP.NET for much of the functionality of the product.
Active Directory and Altiris Notification Server seem to have a love hate relationship. The Active Directory connector loves to import user names and computer names, but it hates to do anything related to group membership.
I'm always surprised to find how few customers take advantage of Altiris Inventory Solution's ability to inventory an application's installed serial number.
