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5 days 16 hours ago Karthikeyan Sundaram commented on the iPhone Application for the Connect web site idea I got ipod for my community contribution.. Awaiting for this Application...
AndyN posted an event: Altiris Sacramento User Group Meeting - December 11 1 week 13 min ago
Join us for our next Altiris Sacramento User Group meeting on Friday, December 11 at SMUD. We are excited to announce Jeremy Carter from the Symantec Product Management team will be our special guest. Jeremy will give a presentation on Notification Server troubleshooting. Breakfast will be provided! See you there!
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pcalver
November 3rd, 2009

November 6th Meeting

We are not going to have the UG meeting on Nov. 6th a previously planned.  We are trying to line up a presenter to discuss NS troubleshooting.  Will most likely be in December.  Please stay tuned for further info.

Thanks,
Patrick

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lskelle
August 11th, 2009

Minutes - Symantec Sacramento User Group Meeting on 8/7/09

Sacramento Symantec User Group Meeting minutes from 08/07/09
Attendees: 16 – it was Furlough Friday for most State Workers
 
Points:
200      Patrick Calvert – split with Linda on setup
200      Linda Skellenger – split with Patrick on setup
100      Cesar Romero - drawing
200      Linda Skellenger – drawing
300      John Henriksen – drawing
500      Patrick Calvert – presenter
 
Rob Reyes from Bay Dynamics presented “Contract Management Solution” via 6.5 console
  • Track contracts for IT Hardware/Software
    • Purchase Orders pertaining to HW/SW purchases
    • Lease Agreements
    • Warranties
  • Associate Inventory and Application Metering Data
    • Leases/Purchases
    • Software Asset Management
  • Reporting
    • Software Compliance checking
    • Computer off leasing in x days
    • Computer older than x days
  • Contract Management Solution links to Asset Management Solution to the Assets
  • Software Compliance
    • Win32 License
    • Application Metering solution (tracks how many times that application has been used)
  • Inventory Solution – holds all the versions of SW purchased, quantity, product id, version number (use wild card “%”to locate all versions
  • Implementation
    • Define gaps
    • Determine ROI based on those gaps
    • Need to be measurable objectives on HW/SW purchase decisions
    • Look at current resources
      • How are things done now
      • How would you like them to be done
      • Support
      • What are the pain points?
    • Are the defined business goals realistic?
    • Best practices
    • Wish list: compare good wishes with the not so good wishes (been there – why it didn’t work)
    • Use of other solutions (non-Symantec) to achieve goal in coordination with Symantec products
    • Review success metrics – must be measurable and actionable
  • Client Management Suite includes: Inventory Solution/Contract Management Solution, Asset Management Solution, etc.
 
Patrick Calvert from SMUD displayed and discussed his experience with Altrinsic Solutions - HIIS product in conjunction with Symantec’s Deployment Solution
  • Reviewed scripts for specific jobs
  • Went into HIIS (Hardware Independent Imaging Solution)
    • Rather intuitive – hasn’t had to read much of the manual or training
    • Installed on test system – tried it out, then setup in production
  • Altrinsic Solutions owns HIIS and DS Alert (two products SMUD is using)
  • HIIS
    • Uses WinPE for PXE boot and install drivers
    • HIIS is integrated
    • Created job under imagining section of DS
      • Can modify
      • Script ready for deployment
      • Scheduled
      • Reboot system can be controlled
      • NS agent installed
    • Maintain
      • Automated for various models and class
  • AHI – Advanced Hardware Inventory – helps reduce the number of classes
  • Several tabs
    • Analyze – current setup
    • Collect – one more level
    • Integrate – creates jobs
    • Maintain – automated
 
  • Next meeting discussions:
    • State furlough Friday – should meeting be changed to Thursday, those from the State said “No” since it is difficult to get another day off, would rather come on the Friday. Most attend based on topic discussion. Based on this information meeting to stay on Friday.
    • Most wanted discussion on HelpDesk solution – see another companies use of the current product – Brent will discuss with co-workers and let us know a good time to present
    • Decided to discuss Professional Services for next agenda:
      • Trouble shooting Inventory issues
      • Health Check
      • No user presentation
      • Asset/Inventory Trouble shooting
      • Setup room in ‘horse shoe’ fashion for discussion
 
Next meeting scheduled for November 6th, 8:30 to noon at the SMUD CSC location (6301 S St, Sacramento)
15 weeks 5 days ago billyccfs commented on the VBScript That Will Set the Pagefile Size download FYI - If you use the same script and just set both Min and Max to 0, it will set the pagefile to ...
16 weeks 6 days ago pcalver commented on the Sacramento Altiris/Symantec User Group Meeting event Please have those attending create ID's and sign up for attendance.  We need this for ordering ...
25 weeks 4 days ago Pascal.KOTTE commented on the User Group FAQ blog entry OK, you see it was done the 23 May... Just 2 days after my comment above [But I do not say my comment ...
26 weeks 23 hours ago pcalver commented on the Gather Power Trend Data for Your Systems with Deployment Solution Icon Status article OK... Like I mentioned I use connector solution to run a report and write the results to a SQL table ...
29 weeks 2 days ago eabeyta commented on the Sacramento Altiris/Symantec User Group Meeting event
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pcalver
April 14th, 2009

Next User Group Meeting

We are planning for the next user group meeting to be May 8th 2009.  Sign up and itinerary will be posted soon.

pcalver posted an article: Inventory C: Drive Fragmentation and Defrag Using a Custom Inventory and Software Delivery 32 weeks 2 days ago
Need to know if the c: drive on your inventoried systems are fragmented? We do, we also need to defrag them regularly. Here is how I am going to do it. I am piloting this as I type this documentation. I have written a script using Wise Scripting. I have attached a ZIP file containing the WSE file and the compiled EXE file.
33 weeks 3 days ago eshwar commented on the Edit the Registry for Each Profile on a System download You can also make use of Active Setup registry keys to add HKCU related entries. We often ...
pcalver posted an article: Create a Custom Inventory for DSN's (ODBC) 34 weeks 5 days ago
I just recently came up with a need to find all systems with a specific DSN name so I can target those systems with a change to the DSN configuration. By default Altiris Inventory gets the installed ODBC drivers, but not the configured DSN's. I have written a script using Wise Scripting. I have attached a ZIP file containing the WSE file and the compiled EXE file.
AndyN posted a blog entry: Minutes from Altiris Sacramento User Group 2/6/09 Meeting 41 weeks 1 day ago
Sacramento Altiris User Group Meeting minutes from 02/06/09
AndyN posted a blog entry: User Group Discount for ManageFusion Las Vegas 42 weeks 4 days ago
User Group members will receive $200 discount for ManageFusion Las Vegas by registering at www.managefusion.com using the following promo code: MF_USE09 See you in Las Vegas!
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