Disable Altiris Deployment Solution Client from Accessing User Properties

I noticed that somehow users were disabling the Altiris client and figured out how to stop it (at least in this case). The most current version of DS Aclient, always allows the user to right-click on the client tray (which you can hide in the admin settings) and select user properties. Then, they can disable the client.

You can disable this with a registry setting. I have exported the Altiris job to make the change (see the attachment is a txt file, but it needs to be renamed to bin, which is what you import into the DS console). This is a sweet job that I use on each new computer.

This is it too:

'vbscript
' The script disables user properties to altiris client

Dim objShell, RegKey
Set objShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
On Error Resume Next
RegKey = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Altiris\Client Service\RequirePasswordForUserProp"

objShell.RegWrite RegKey,"1","REG_DWORD"

WScript.Quit