Deployment Solution

when booting up a managed PC and press F8 it shows old preboot configurations that have been deleted and no longer exist. any way to tidy this up ?

CMS7.5HF4

Hi Jannas,

      You can check the table 

select * from Inv_PXE_Image_List

and delete the older WINPE from that table. So it will remove all the entries of that old WINPE.

WOW- I run this and it shows me 40 resources, I take it CMS is just bad at cleaning itself up!

Deleting it from the table will NOT delete it from PXE.

To remove it from the PXE menu it needs to be pulled from the console, AND that removal must be executed client-side.  All it does when executed is to essentially delete the sub-folder under Images and cycle PXE so if you wanted to do so yourself, you could remove the image and ... cycle the PXE services.

In 7.5.  The same does NOT apply to 7.1.

In 7.5, if you review the pxe logs, you'll literally see it enumerate the folders and build a menu from them.  Translation - you can add your own by dropping in a folder, and remove one by pulling out a folder.  That's all there is to it.

Hi Thomas, thanks for that.

So, I am using 7.5 - I assume all I have to do is browse to

x:\Program Files\Altiris\Deployment\Bootwiz and delete any subfolders in here that I dont want to appear on the menu?

I also assume this will replicate to all Site servers also ?

Would I be corerct in those assumtptions ?

Thanks

J

not quite the right location, but essentially the truth.  There's a BDC folder...  hmmm...  I wish I had my virtual.

Hi Thomas, Er..... thanks I think.

"not quite the right location, but essentially the truth" - Its either that folder or not :-)

LOL

I know.  My virtual environment is now spinning up finally - just got it turned on and host OS installed.  I hope to have ITMS installed by EOD tomorrow and THEN I can confirm the location.

Not on X for sure.

Should be in an Images folder.  The names of the folders will match the name of the menu option.  AND there will be a WIM file in there about 150M in size.

If that's the folder, yeah.  You could always drag it to the desktop, restart PXE (don't worry about TFTP) and if it works - you got it, and if not... put it back.  LOL

Hi,

Same issue here...I found the folders you are referring to:

D:\Program Files\Altiris\Altiris Agent\Agents\Deployment\SBS\Images

Is that the right one? 

Is there a way to automate the deletions from a built-in Altiris function (as opposed to scripting it)?

Thanks!

They should remove themselves IF you remove them from the console.

If that is NOT working, then ... I don't know how to remove them other than scripting.  Unless...  MAYBE if you built a package pointing to that folder, removed all the files from the package, then set up replication to that location...?  It should replicate out emptiness, right?  It would be FAR from supported though.  Might work...