Altiris Software Delivery question
Updated: 22 May 2010 | 5 comments
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I'm new to Altiris Software Delivery and i followd Screenbert video on how to create a software task/colletion.
Can somebody tell me how do i inform the user regarding the Software Delivery Task? By the way i'm using Altiris Notification Server 6.
Let us say i'm deploying Office 2007 to 1000 users. I would like ti display a messaage to the user with timeout, that Office 2007 is going to install.
I couldn't find any information myself. So any link/info will do.
Thank you for your precious time.
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There are two built in methods
Once is controlled by the Altiris Agent configuration settings (and is a global setting). The other is controlled by the specific task you setup. Unfortunately the message can't be modified, and there have been some issues with the reminder screens. Most advanced packaging people tend to create scripts or wrappers around the software installation.
Jim Harings
HP Enterprise Services
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Jim is true
We actually create wise/vbscripts as install wrappers depending upon the requirement. Most of the cases we create a scripts with install options and prerequisite checks.
One more important feature of these scripts is to retun an EXIT CODE to Altiris. We always return an EXIT CODE [0 - success 1- Failure] to the altiris and at the end of the script we also run Altiris Inventory task.
Thanks,
Eshwar
Link broken
Thought I'd watch the video but the link seems to be broken.. :(
Can anyone point me to the mentioned video?
Thanks.
I don't think so there is any link
Palmerj,
I don't think so there is any link mentioned in the above. If you are looking for Altiris SWD basics video, i got it here for you
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/videos/altiris-software-delivery-basics
Enjoy.
Thank you for your suggestions
I have created a standard vbscript template to install an application with a message box before install and installing with a progress bar [/QB!] and displaying a dialog box after the install and also EXIT CODE as suggested by ESHWAR.
Thank you for your support.
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