Hi, I think it would be brilliant if we could see in 'real-time' a graphical overview of which package/site servers need replication to become up to date and in addition their organisational layout. In most cases they have block out settings applied, and it would nice to see when they start communicating again, or from a troubleshooting point of view, we could instantly see which package/site servers have lost thier sync with the NS Server. Currently this is quite a manual, long winded ...

I suspect I'm not alone in this...Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2/Core are definitely on our short-term radar.  What is a bit of a longer-term upgrade is NS7/CMS7/LSS/RS7.  We're going to need support for Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2 in NS6.  Hopefully the underlying OS architectures of Win7 and Server 2008R2 (GUI mode) is close enough to Vista that it would not be a monumental effort to make the NS6 Altiris Agent ...

When I decided to upgrade to NS7, I could not find a separate downloadable item on Symantec Download page for NS7.  To upgrade from HD6 to SD7, I had first to download and install NS7, then install SD solution to it. And since, there is no NS7-only download available, I had to download CMS 7, which downloads NS7, then add SD7solution to it. It would be really nice if Symantec adds NS7 as a download item to it's Download page, so that we do not get confused when we need to ...

In NS6 you had the ability to enter report parameters before the report executed.  In NS7 the report executes as soon as you select it, and you can't make any changes to the report parameters until it has finished running.  This can be particularly frustrating when a report takes a very long time to run.

Prelude Initially, I wrote this about Backup Exec, because that's where I ran into this problem. I'm also a SAV & SEP veteran but don't recall seeing this heinous language in their KB articles. So maybe it's a Veritas thing. But, whatever... ...then it occurred to me that while BE may (or may not) be the only Symantec enterprise product to which the symptom applies, the cure is universal. Because it bridges a huge gap between the goals of Symantec Sales, Support, ...

NS 7 currently generates an internal schedule calendar. The calendar displays such events as block out periods, maintenance windows, and more. It would be nice to expand this calendar to display other task and jobs. Such as when agent pushes are scheduled, software delivery, or inventory jobs will run. I currently keep this in a spreadsheet. I think it would be beneficial if NS generated this report automatically.

When you enable and run a Managed Software Delivery policy on a PC you can double-click the policy in the Altiris Agent to see additional information, including the source location for the download and the download status.  This same information is not available when running a software install task or job.  You see that the task is "Running", but that can mean that it's downloading or actually executing, and it's not clear which unless you look at the Altiris Agent ...

I think it would be cool if there could be a section under forums specifically for SDK related stuff.  That would give us coders an easy place to help each other out.

Creating a Client Task Schedule in the NS7 console gives you a lot of scheduling possibilities that would otherwise not have access to.  Unfortunately, you can only run a single task as part of the Client Task Schedule and cannot schedule a job.  With a Client Task Schedule you can, for example, set a schedule for a date in the past so that a task runs once ASAP, or runs on System Startup.  You can't schedule jobs to run at System Startup, and setting a job to run ...