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New discussion 21 Feb 2012

jpellet2 posted: 7.2 SP2: Mac Client Issues

We are experiencing some pretty odd issues with most of our Mac clients. All of the clients are running 10.6.8 and are running with the 7.1.8280 agent. The mac clients dont update their configurations correctly. When we click on General (in the Symantec Management Agent App) and then click "R

discussion comment 20 Feb 2012

PeeGee commented on: Mac Lion inventory issue

I'm having exactly the same issue on the first run on Lion. It seems that a reboot of the MAC resolves this issue for me. With the next inventory run it then suddenly works.

article comment 21 Dec 2011

Elizabeth Wilcox commented on: Mac Management with Altiris CMS 7.1 from Symantec User Guide

Does the latest Mac guide contain all the information you need? If not, please post your questions about Mac management with CMS.

blog entry comment 17 Oct 2011

alexanderruding1 commented on: Mac Disk Recovery : Corrupt Disk Permission Lock Time Machine Volume in Mac OS X

Hey, you can perform Mac disk recovery by using good recovery tool. Just download the trial version of recovery tool from the internet and try for the recovery result.Remo Recover (Mac) Pro Edition is the best recovery tool. Just download the ...

blog entry comment 20 Sep 2011

Andrew Bosch commented on: Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion" Support for ITMS 7.1

And the link to the actual update :) http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO58968

discussion comment 19 May 2011

Tal Fisher commented on: I can pull but not push SMA to XP clients

The company's firewall policy has a custom scope. The Notification Server was outside the scope. Thanks for your help.

New blog entry 16 May 2011

Andrew Bosch posted: Mac OS X Reboot Deferral

Using CMS 7.x to install software updates on the Mac works quite well. Before installing updates there is a built-in mechanism with Task Server to notify the end user. Once updates have installed, the Mac will automatically restart as the system is left in an unstable state. I have been asked b

discussion comment 24 Jan 2011

sandra.g commented on: Stop Liveupdate from launching when user logs in

Joseph, If your clients are standalone, then the tech article listed in twilight123's post would explain what's going on. If your clients are managed, LiveUpdate policy sets a schedule for off hours (i.e. the evening), and people log ...

discussion comment 06 May 2010

briend commented on: Read-only (bootcamp) NTFS partition causes ADLAgent to fail to start up

ADLAgent doesn't seem to try to modify anything on the drive, so I can't explain why mounting the NTFS drive R/W fixes this issue. It just does. Maybe it is a separate side-effect of using the FUSE drivers.

discussion comment 05 May 2010

briend commented on: adlagent 2.6.79 fails to connect. Macintosh 10.5.8. DS SP4

Actually I meant to link to the logging article: https://kb.altiris.com/display/1n/kb/articleContent.asp?aid=32698&n=&s=&link=#