I taken the NS, DS and Asset Management Training. We had on-site training for NS & DS at my company.

For Asset Management I attended a training session at Bay Dynamics by Seamus Garvey.

The person at Symantec responsible for Altiris training material was in the class reviewing the existing material to update the course.
I choose Bay Dynamics because they are a partner with Altiris and provided real world examples.

Personally, I would start using the product before attending training.

For the NS and DS training it is best if you use the product some before coming to training. Especially if you are going to the bootcamp. Also I agree that you should go to a training, like ITS or Bay, where the trainers are also consultants who have real world experience instead of just reading the powerpoint slide deck to you.

Feel free to contact me directly with any questions regarding training

Jonathan Jesse
Director of Training
ITS Partners

look up user JJesse, he will lead you in the right direction.

He is already on it. :)

Thanks for the kind words savnhga

Jonathan Jesse
Director of Training
ITS Partners

CMS bootcamps are awesome.
If you're lucky enough you'll get jjesse as your instructor. i had mine with him and less than 6 months later I got my ACE. JJ you're the best :)

We already deployed NS, Asset mgmt and patch mgmt solution. We have DS deployed but haven't started using it.

I am looking to improve custom report/collection creation (sql driven) and also best practices for load balancing/DR/ SQL tuning specific to Altiris.

I have read numerous articles in the Altris KB also.

I was looking at ONLC - Any experience with these folks?

I looked at ITS also- I will call them and see if they offer anything mid november. I mainly need NS Asset Mnmgt, Patch Mgmt, and DS

Good to hear you have some experience with the NS, Patch Management and Asset. I know we have a couple of classes that cover Asset and CMS Bootcamp on the schedule.

The NS Foundations classes spend some time on custom report writing and how things work.

Let me know if I can help

Jonathan Jesse
Director of Training
ITS Partners

I did my DS 6.8 training at

http://www.maintech.com/

It was good 5 day class covering the install from how to produce reporting tools.

I had about 4 months of using altiris before i went to class. I had good grasp on how to image computers, create scripts to install apps. Stuff like that.

class help me with understanding how to create custom reporting and use the SQL Wizard to create reports .

For the rest of the year is up on our website (www.itsdelivers.com) and the training schedule for the 1st Qtr of '09 will be up by the end of week.

Let me know if you are interested in any classes

Jonathan Jesse
Director of Training
ITS Partners