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Custom Inventory Challenge

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Custom Inventory 7 Challenge - By Customers for Customers

What: Inventory Solution team is sponsoring the Custom Inventory 7 Challenge for you to earn points by creating custom inventory scripts for Altiris Client Management and Server Management Suites 7.0.

When: The contest will run from September 1, 2009 to February 28, 2010

Where: Symantec Connect Community

  • All entries will receive 100 points - 50 regular submission points plus 50 contest submission points.
  • The top 3 entries for each month will receive reward points as judged by the experts
    * 1st Place: 1500 points
    * 2nd Place 1000 points
    * 3rd Place 500 points
    ** Note: A minimum of 10 total entries per month are required in order to select the winners. If 10 submissions are not reached in a particular month the rewards will be awarded in the following month.
  • You can review the rewards catalog here.

How:   
1. Join this group.

2. Create your script. Before doing so, please review the following articles and documentation about Inventory Solution 7.0 Custom Inventory:

http://www.symantec.com/connect/articles/introduct...

http://www.symantec.com/connect/articles/custom-in...

http://www.altiris.com/upload/inventory_user_gde.pdf

Note: Only scripts for Inventory Solution 7.x are accepted into the challenge.

3. Upload your script using the "Download" utility on the Connect site, and be sure to "tag" your script with this group (Custom Inventory Challenge).

4. Bonus points will be awarded at the end of each month.

Disclaimers
Symantec will make these Custom Inventory scripts available as is or modified at their discretion. Symantec will not perform any Quality Assurance testing on Custom Inventory scripts made available thru the Symantec Connect. It is the responsibility of the customer to provide internal qualification of said Custom Inventory scripts prior to rolling it out into a live production environment. Any scripts found to not be functional or that are duplicates of already submitted scripts will not qualify for points.

Please report any bugs or problems associated with any Custom Inventory script downloaded from the Symantec Connect. You may report problems via the Symantec Connect portal. Please note that Symantec will not provide technical or development support for any issue reported. Symantec will utilize customer feedback during its regular maintenance of Inventory Solution product.

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New article 06 Dec 2011
KSchroeder posted: ActiveX Controls Custom Inventory for Windows XP and Inventory 6.1
During our efforts towards moving to Windows 7, one obstacle which came up frequently was dealing with ActiveX controls installed in the browser.  We are in transition from nearly all users being Administrators of their XP boxes, to (nearly) all users being limited on their Win7 boxes.  Microsoft provides some ways to manage ActiveX (including using approved controls, managed codebase
New discussion 26 May 2011
JeffDG posted: Missing Custom Inventory Sample
I downloaded the v6 Custom Inventory samples, and I found one that seems to output the exact information I need, but they provided the output, not the input file for AexCustInv   Reg_Recurse_PathNameTypeValue.xml   Anyone have the script used for this one, seems the only sample with this mistake.
discussion comment 28 Apr 2011
TGiles commented on: Custom Inventory - Manual Testing
Unfortunately for the custom inventory tasks there isn't a way to randomize the schedule or perform delta updates.
idea comment 20 Apr 2011
Mithun Sanghavi commented on: An Alert or Notification or Logs for websites visited.
Hello, Thanks Paul. That's indeed needed with Symantec Security Product. Hope to see that coming soon :)
discussion comment 16 Feb 2011
JP330ci commented on: Custom Inventory 7 Powershell Example
I'd love to see this also... I've not seen even the slightest mention of it so far..
download comment 14 Jan 2012
rickyr288 commented on: Custom Inventory to Parse Software Tagging Files
Asset management software can be roughly divided into two areas. It can be a simple application that discovers assets attached to your network and creates an inventory of all these assets.Then there are applications that are part of a complete IT ...
download comment 26 Jan 2010
KSchroeder commented on: Script and NS6 Custom Inventory to Track PC Startup Times
it actually leverages the SysInternals/Microsoft 'Autoruns' tool which pulls auto-launching items from about 7 different places in the registry and the Startup folder! :)
blog entry comment 26 Oct 2010
JeffDG commented on: Custom Inventory 7 Challenge - Update
Can we declare the "challenge" to be dead?
article comment 18 Jan 2010
dougj commented on: Using Custom Inventory for User Selectable Maintenance Windows
Thank you for the thorough description and novel use of custom inventory. Great job!
New blog entry 18 Nov 2009
Rene Kolga posted: Custom Inventory 7 Challenge – WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT
I’m glad to announce the first winners of the Custom Inventory 7 Challenge (https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/groups/cus...). Winners’ accounts should be credited with Connect points within the next 24 hours:

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