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Custom Inventory to Collect "Autorun" items

By KSchroeder | October 22, 2009 7:04PM
We're currently going through a project to try to optimize the client PC workstation experience, and one of the "hot buttons" for many people was the startup time (from logon to functioning desktop).  So we decided to look at items which run at startup on our client workstations.  To do so, we utilized a SysInternals (now owned by Read more
KSchroeder says: I'm personally not doing anything with it.  Another individual on my team is taking that data and matching it up with another custom inventory we have that tries to estimate the "time to desktop" by logging the startup time, the ...
George Wagner says: This looks really cool. I haven't had an opportunity to do much with custom inventory yet. Question: what do you do with this startup information once you have it?
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Altiris Visio Stencil
dallasr
“I've looked for Altiris Visio stencils on the web and never came across any, so I put my own together from various sources. This is my first time creating one so hopefully it turned out OK. See the screen shot below for an example diagram I did with the stencil. I created this using Visio 2003, so...”
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DS 6.9 Services Script
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“Figured maybe this could save someone some time when they go to do an upgrade on their Deployment Server 6.9. I recently upgraded our Deployment Servers to SP3 and KB Article # 36555 states that you should stop several services on the server before you start the upgrade process. ...”
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Altiris Deployment Solution Job Search Utility
Darren Collins
“One of the most frustrating problems with Deployment Server is the lack of the ability to search jobs. There are many scenarios where searching jobs is useful - here are just a few, To find all those Adobe Reader jobs you've got so that you can be sure that all the vulnerable version deployments...”
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Posted 12 weeks 4 days ago by Darren Collins
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PDFTK Builder, a Free Tool to Modify, Split and Watermark PDF Documents
riva11
“PDFTK Builder is a free tool that allows to modify, split and watermark PDF documents with a intuitive Windows graphical interface. Main features: Collate , allows you to rearrange (reorder, delete, & duplicate) pages in a single document and/or merge pages from multiple PDF documents. ...”
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Posted 16 weeks 6 days ago by riva11
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Disable AutoRun XP - DS Job and VBscript
jamesmax
“Several months ago, I decided to improve the security on our desktops. One thing that must be done is disable autorun. If you don't disable autorun, many viruses, Trojans, and worms can be spread - including the conficker virus. Disabling the autorun in the GPO hasn't done it correctly in the...”
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Posted 17 weeks 3 days ago by jamesmax
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Reboot Utility
Mike.Langford
“Quite often in our organization we want to offer the option of rebooting after a package has been installed, but on the other hand, if there is no user at the computer to respond, we don't want a message box to just hang there on the screen until someone clicks yes or no. To help facilitate this, I...”
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Posted 17 weeks 4 days ago by Mike.Langford
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DS Jobs: Remotely Add User/Group to Local Group (Admin/Powerusers etc)
AdrianC
“This is a simple job to add AD users/groups to a local group. I use this to add our IT Dept to the Local Admin groups so we can manage the machines fully without being Domain Admin's. You can either follow the following instructions to do this yourself or you can import the job at the bottom of the...”
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Posted 19 weeks 2 days ago by AdrianC
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DS Jobs: Remotely Change User/Administrator Password
AdrianC
“This job (if you can call it that) is extremely simple. It allows you to quickly change the Administrator (or modifiable to change any user) password. Step 1: Create a new job. Add a new "Run Script" ...”
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Posted 19 weeks 3 days ago by AdrianC
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VBScript to Create Windows Firewall Exclusions for Mcafee ePO
aspen
“You may be able to deploy the Mcafee ePO client to PC's but it may not be able to communicate with the server. The following script adds the needed exception to the Windows firewall so that it may establish communication. This script can also be easily modified to allow the import of any...”
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Posted 23 weeks 4 days ago by aspen
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Altiris Deployment Server Monitor Pack (MS6)
Antonp
“Altiris Deployment Server monitor Pack contains and monitors the basic services that are responsible for running the Deployment Server Components: Deployment Services eXpress Services PXE Services ...”
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Software Installation in Progress Message Utility
Leonard Powers
“During our rapideploy image, the keyboard and mouse are disabled as the PC is renamed and joined to the network. I'd like to have the same thing happen once the PC is connected to the domain and our SVS apps are being deployed. ...”
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Posted 26 weeks 4 days ago by Leonard Powers
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Wake On Lan GUI
CondorMan
“This is an application that will send a Wake On Lan packet to a single machine. This can be useful for troubleshooting WOL. Extract it and run WakeOnLanGui.exe ...”
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Posted 26 weeks 4 days ago by CondorMan
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New NewBDC.bat
CondorMan
“In order to generate a new PEInstall.exe and InitialAutomationEnv.iso files for Deployment Solution 7.0, you must run "NewBDC.bat" with a complex command-line argument. To make life easier, I have re-written the NewBDC.bat file and uploaded it here for you to use. Simply replace NewBDC.bat...”
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Posted 28 weeks 5 days ago by CondorMan
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Altiris Deployment Server - Install Automatic Updates
MyITGuy
“This script runs through the Altiris Deployment Solution allowing the check, download and install of automatic updates. A prerequisite of this task is to copy WLogevent.exe to the local system. Currently, this script may require multiple runs as it does not forcibly reboot the system and re-run. I...”
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Posted 30 weeks 5 days ago by MyITGuy
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Disable Altiris Deployment Solution Client from Accessing User Properties
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“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...”
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Posted 31 weeks 2 days ago by jamesmax
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ShowName Executable for Windows Machines
RFredette
“Showname.exe is a very small and simple application that... well, shows the name of the computer it is running on. ...”
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Posted 34 weeks 2 days ago by RFredette
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Automating Wireless Profile Config Settings for Intel PROSet/Wireless Software 11.1.1.3 for SWD/DS
Eshwar
“Following is the method if you are planning for automating "Wireless Profile" configuration setting for Intel PROSet/Wireless software 11.1.1.3 for SWD/DS. I've included DELL & IBM laptop models in my script. You can change the script according to your requirement to fit in more...”
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Posted 35 weeks 5 days ago by Eshwar
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Backing Up User Profiles Using a VBScript
Eshwar
“In my earlier writings, I wrote a VBScript to copy files/folders to "User Profiles". In case you wanted to take backup of "User Profile" files/folders before you continue, this script will come in handy for you. ...”
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Posted 36 weeks 4 days ago by Eshwar
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Installation Wrapper Scripts [Wise & Visual Basic Scripts]
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“Installation wrapper scripts usually contains preinstall checks such as checking for existence of SETUP file in the source directory and checking for a particular process [whether it is running or not]. Depending upon the requirement we can use Wise Script as well as Visual Basic script for...”
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Posted 36 weeks 4 days ago by Eshwar
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Registry Key: Stop Autoreboot for Windows Update if a User is Logged In
AdrianC
“Every now and again, after a Windows Update your machine will require a reboot. I've been bugged by this before and a prompt every 15 minutes isn't going to convince me to close everything and reboot. This registry setting will change this so no prompt will appear if a user is logged on and the...”
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Posted 36 weeks 6 days ago by AdrianC
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